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Portrait of Peter Temple

Peter Temple

(1946–2018) Novelist Australia

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Peter Temple was a novelist from Australia, best known for Black Tide.

Quick Facts About Peter Temple

Born: January 1, 1946
Died: March 8, 2018
Nationality: Australia
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Black Tide
Known for: Jack Irish

About Peter Temple

Peter Temple was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his Jack Irish novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He was also an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Miles Franklin Literary Award Q137754323

Quotes by Peter Temple

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

Attempt

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I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a…

Any

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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…

Australia

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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…

Between

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

Character

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“I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.”

First time

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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…

Cabinet

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

Along

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No book of mine is complete without a dog.

Book

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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…

Any

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“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other…

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

Circumstances

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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…

About

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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…

Also

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A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or…

Crime

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As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Am

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I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on…

Although

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