Peter Carey Quote

Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists are often appalling human beings.


As quoted in: Times 27 October 2001


Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists are often appalling human beings.

Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists are often appalling human beings.

Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists are often appalling human beings.

Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists are often appalling human beings.