Peter Carey Quotes

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Peter Carey

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 7, 1943

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

Peter Carey

I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.

Peter Carey

There are people that you don't like because you're jealous of them until you meet them. And you haven't read their book because it's had so much attention. Then you meet them and discover they've been jealous of you, and you become friends.

Peter Carey

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.

Peter Carey

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

Peter Carey