Peter James Quotes

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• ...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

  Peter James

  Success, Attitude, Thinking

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• Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

  Peter James

  Brain, Bed, Body

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• There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

  Peter James

  Fun, People, World

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• We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.

  Peter James

  Wall, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Women are afraid of walking at night, that someone pulls them into an alley and rapes them. That almost never happens. I mean, 98% of people who are raped, are raped by somebody they know. Somebody goes too far. But the destruction is just the same.

  Peter James

  Mean, Night, People

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

  Peter James

  Children, Cop, Deals

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

  Peter James

  Thinking, Police, Together

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• Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

  Peter James

  Ideas, Theme, Bigs

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

  Peter James

  Way, Rooms

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• If you go into a bar or restaurant with a cop, the first thing he does is he'll stand in the entrance, and he'll look at every single face in that room because he doesn't want to spend an hour having a drink or lunch and didn't spot some villain they've been looking for, for two years.

  Peter James

  Years, Two, Lunch

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

  Peter James

  Book, Ghetto, Literature

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

  Peter James

  Beautiful, Dark, Cities

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• What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

  Peter James

  Communication, Airports, Sea

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• To read is human, to review is divine.

  Peter James

  Divine, Reviews, Humans

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• Music is an important part of my writing process.

  Peter James

  Writing, Important, Process

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.

  Peter James

  Letting Go, Police, Murder

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

  Peter James

  Dog, People, Judging

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• The world is changing and people don't like change.

  Peter James

  People, World

  Peter James (2011). “Perfect People”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

  Peter James

  Book, America, News

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

  Peter James

  Character, Thinking, Crime

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

  Peter James

  Sunday, Thinking, Unique

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

  Peter James

  Bridges, Worry, Golden

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• Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.

  Peter James

  Wine, Beer, Grace

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• Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

  Peter James

  Sorry, Machines, Might

  Peter James (1991). “Sweetheart”

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• I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

  Peter James

  Book, Giving, New Work

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