17 Quotes by Peter Temple

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

No book of mine is complete without a dog.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.