And it’s always possible that you will not get a nice review. So – and that’s enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can’t talk back, and it’s sort of shaming in a way. Peter Carey Read Quote
I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn’t discard that, didn’t reject that, didn’t forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out. Peter Carey Read Quote
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to ‘autobiography.’ Peter Carey Read Quote
I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It’s different. America doesn’t really feel to be a part of that. Peter Carey Read Quote
The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with. Peter Carey Read Quote
I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else’s life. Peter Carey Read Quote
My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education. Peter Carey Read Quote
