There’s a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along. Peter Temple Read Quote
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here. Peter Temple Read Quote
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. Peter Temple Read Quote
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. Peter Temple Read Quote
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances. Peter Temple Read Quote
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. Peter Temple Read Quote
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. Peter Temple Read Quote
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. Peter Temple Read Quote
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 Read Quote
