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No book of mine is complete without a dog.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Book
Dog
Complete
Mine
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I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Plot
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I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Morning
Character
Plot
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As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Novel
People
Writing
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Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Circumstances
Class
Colour
Football
May
Nonsense
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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 / Fiction Writer
Bored
Careers
People
Want Something
High Point
Something Else
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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 / Fiction Writer
Expensive
Grief
Plot
Writing
Attempts
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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 / Fiction Writer
Childhood
Seems
Life Men Long
Attempt
Escape
Fears
Some Men
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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 / Fiction Writer
Countryside
Crime
Urban
Suppose
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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 / Fiction Writer
Country
Disagree
Issues
Thinking
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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 / Fiction Writer
Australia
Crime
Crime Novels
Melbourne
Thinking
Interesting Place
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A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
Peter Temple / Fiction Writer
Intrigued
Men Women People
Cabinet
Women Men People
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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 / Fiction Writer
Hero
Personality
Writing
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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 / Fiction Writer
Crime
Crime Fiction
Fiction Writing
Hero
Lazy
Taste
Grant
Medium
Protagonist
Shown
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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 / Fiction Writer
Pierce
Pulp
Window
Twice
Dan
Elicit
Real Difference
Responses
Sentence
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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 / Fiction Writer
Crime
Moving
Plot
Strong
Writing
Myself Always Way
Fairly
Narratives
Occasion
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