When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He’d say, ‘Oh, that’s your mother’s sort of thing.’ But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn’t want to go there. Peter Carey Read Quote
I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all – even if it does continue to terrify me. Peter Carey Read Quote
I used to say when I was younger, ‘I’m exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that’s done.’ Now I find, as I’m getting older and I’m more aware of time, I can actually write all day. Peter Carey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have never begun a novel which wasn’t going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. Peter Carey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that’s enough. I can’t do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning’s work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine. Peter Carey Read Quote
