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… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
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. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.” — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
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. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
