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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

- Peter Carey
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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.

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.

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

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.

I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

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

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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'