“I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.” WayBelievePersonsI BelievePerfectPartyBrainMetaphorInsightBetter WaysIntriguingKnitting Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“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.” WayWritingMovingStrongNovelWrittenCrimeOccasionsNarrativePlotCrime NovelsPictures Of Myself Author:Peter Temple
“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.” WayWritingKindGriefNovelPlansExpensivePlot Author:Peter Temple
“Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.” MayClassFootballCircumstancesColourNonsense Author:Peter Temple
“Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.” PeopleGovernmentFailingAidsCommitGovernanceUnwillingGood Governance Author:Lee H. Hamilton
“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.” IfsThinkingKindInterestingNovelCrimeAustraliaMost InterestingMelbourneInteresting PlacesCrime Novels Author:Peter Temple
“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.” WritingLooksFilmYoungFictionCrimePersonalityHeroTasteMediumsSupposed To BeLazyGrantsCrime FictionFiction WritingProtagonistsTaste In Music Author:Peter Temple
“There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.” PeopleWantCareersBoredWant SomethingHigh Points Author:Peter Temple
“As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.” PeopleWritingCan DoNovelConcerned Author:Peter Temple
“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.” IfsThinkingMayCountryValuesIssuesShareDisagreeDominant Author:Peter Temple