Peter James famous quotes

03-22-2025

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
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.
-- Peter James

#Ideas #Serendipity #Way
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
Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.
-- Peter James

#Brain #Body #Bed
Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.
-- Peter James

#Way #Rooms
To read is human, to review is divine.
-- Peter James

#Divine #Reviews #Humans
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

#Military #Years #Police
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

#Iphone #World #Radio
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 #Research
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 #Unique #Thinking
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
Music is an important part of my writing process.
-- Peter James

#Writing #Important #Process
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
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 #Puff
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
-- Peter James

#Careers #Lines #Officers
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 #Might #Tests
The world is changing and people don't like change.
-- Peter James

#People #World
...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 #Winning

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