"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."

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

Peter Temple

#Strong Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.”
“The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological.Â The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.”
“The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.”
“Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.”
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”
“Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.”
“In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.”

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