Author: Peter Carey

Quotes

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

- 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.

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.

- Peter Carey

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

- Peter Carey

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

- Peter Carey

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