“I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.” PeopleThinkingWritingBelieveHardViewsPossibilityDon't BelieveBoringPoint Of ViewInventionNovelistsAbout YourselfTedious Author:Peter Carey
“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else” PeopleLoveArtShowsEyeSomewhere Else Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories
“Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten” PeopleShouldYearsLongMadeSaidWarHomeFatherHappenedSonBattleTraditionAbuseMurderEmbraceForgivingForgottenMinistersBelovedPrimeContinentsLong AgoPrime MinisterFather And SonAboriginalBeloved SonGallipoli Author:Peter Carey
“I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.” PeopleThinkingPrivate Life Author:Peter Carey
“I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.” PeopleKnowsRealCharacterKnow How Author:Peter Carey
“I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.” PeopleWould BeDecidedUniversityChemistryLecturesChemistZoologist Author:Peter Carey
“One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.” PeopleRealPlayCharacterAbleTogetherFitPermitTwistsClay Author:Peter Carey
“So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.” PeopleFirstsIdeasHappensCoursesProcessBiggerBroadsInventing Author:Peter Carey
