Peter Temple quotes

“I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.”
-- Peter Temple

Source : "The unvarnished truth". Interview with Peter Craven, www.theaustralian.com.au. October 3, 2009.

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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 of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.”
-- Peter Temple

Source : "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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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 expensive ways.”
-- Peter Temple

Source : "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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“Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.”
-- Peter Temple

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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 novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.”
-- Peter Temple

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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 were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.”
-- Peter Temple

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

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“As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.”
-- Peter Temple

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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 issues all the time.”
-- Peter Temple

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“Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?”

Source : "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.

“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”

“The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.”

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.”

“But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.”

“I'm a character actor.”

“Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.”

“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”

“I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.”