I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
From Peter Carey
I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
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.
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
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