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

~Peter Temple

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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.

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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.

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For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

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Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

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

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I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

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In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

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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.

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In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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