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Peter Carey: Dialogue and Scene (The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 2)

Peter Carey, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Given all the posts today, I now offer a jewel of a comment by Australian Peter Carey, author of Oscar and Lucinda, History of the Kelly Gang, My Life as a Fake, and Theft: A Love Story.  I give it unadulterated so it resonate all weekend in your mind, body, and speech:

When I was writing Tristan Smith, which is set in the theatre, I began to think more about how you make a scene work through action.  You start to conceive of dialogue as the disturbance on the surface that occurs as the result of tectonic shifts beneath.