Quotes by Peter James - Page 1

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.
Peter James / Writer
Dog
Judging
People
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To read is human, to review is divine.
Peter James / Writer
Divine
Humans
Reviews
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Music is an important part of my writing process.
Peter James / Writer
Important
Process
Writing
Writing Process
Important Part
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The world is changing and people don't like change.
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People
World
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Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.
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Bed
Body
Brain
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Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.
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Rooms
Way
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Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.
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Beautiful
Cities
Dark
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I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.
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Black
Police
Sanity
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I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.
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Character
Crime
Thinking
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I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.
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Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.
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Needs
Successful
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Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.
Peter James / Writer
Bigs
Ideas
Theme
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Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
Peter James / Writer
Careers
Lines
Officers
Officer
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Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.
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Close Minded
Open Minded
Police
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The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
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Degrees
Emotional
Police
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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 / Writer
Civilised
Glue
Police
Thinking
Together
Highly
Holds
Major Part
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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 / Writer
Bridges
Golden
Worry
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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 / Writer
Book
Giving
New Work
Puff
Asked
Love Hope Will
Works
Quotation
Truly
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There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.
Peter James / Writer
Awful
Book
Thinking
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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 / Writer
Achieve
Colour
Fun
Grey
Huge
People
World
Life Success World
Adding
Bit
Increasingly
Splash
While
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Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.
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Healthy
Police
World
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Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.
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Different
Ideas
Serendipity
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My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
Peter James / Writer
Digital
Iphone
Radio
Thanks
World
Today World I Am
Today World Day
App
Receives
Wherever
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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 / Writer
Children
Cop
Deals
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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 / Writer
America
Book
Invaluable
News
Promotion
Time Travel Me
Abroad
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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.
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Success
Attitude
Thinking
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I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops.
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Kind
Pigeons
Writing
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There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife.
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Afterlife
Atmosphere
Wall
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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.
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Book
Ghetto
Literature
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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.
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Letting Go
Murder
Police
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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.
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Mean
Night
People
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Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.
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Class
Gay
Two
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There's a difference between what I call a dumb ghost and a smart ghost. The smart ghost is Hamlet's father - you know, he says, "Get revenge, my son!" That's incredibly rare. It's much more the grey lady in the same place everyday, moving across the floor.
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Father
Revenge
Smart
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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 / Writer
Machines
Might
Sorry
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There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
Peter James / Writer
Bickering
Classic
Hierarchy
Military
Police
Years
Tv
Argue
Cops
Every Time
Presence
Spent
Switch
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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.
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Lunch
Two
Years
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If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"
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Shopping
Thinking
Two
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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.
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Makeup
Thinking
Wall
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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.
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Sunday
Thinking
Unique
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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.
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Communication
Airports
Sea
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Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies and see behind enemy lines in the Second World War. And the Pentagon... The X-Files is based on a real department in the Pentagon, that's still there now. Pretty much every government, probably as far back in time as we can go, has one. And the police will quite often - and when I say often, I mean often - they will go to mediums if all else fails in the enquiry.
Peter James / Writer
War
Mean
Real
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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.
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Beer
Grace
Wine
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