Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Peter Carey's Popular Quotes

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

- Peter Carey

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

- Peter Carey

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

- Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul

- Peter Carey

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

- Peter Carey

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

- Peter Carey

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

- Peter Carey

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

- Peter Carey

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

- Peter Carey