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

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Source : "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

Peter Carey

#Writing Quotes #Talent Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.”
“Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.”
“I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.”
“I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.”
“Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.”

Source : Natasha Friend (2010). “For Keeps”, p.50, Penguin
“Just because I publish ***** does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are”
“The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.”
“Shooting great-grandchildren of some of the people I had photographed in the past, who are around the age of 15, is fascinating to me, because they're right on this fine line between still being children and starting to become themselves.”

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