Quote 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 of us…

— Peter Temple

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

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

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

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

— Peter Temple

“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

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

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

— Peter Temple

No book of mine is complete without a dog.

— Peter Temple

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

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

— Peter Temple

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…

— Peter Temple