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

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• Peter Carey:

  Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

• Peter Carey:

  I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to

• Peter Carey:

  One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everyth

• Peter Carey:

  I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

• Peter Carey:

  I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day w

• Peter Carey:

  It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get

• Peter Carey:

  Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

• Peter Carey:

  I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, a

• Peter Carey:

  I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

• Peter Carey:

  And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, t