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

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

- Peter Carey

Swimming always cleans your soul

- Peter Carey

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

- Peter Carey

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

- 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