Quotes by Peter James

Peter James

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.

Sunday

Thinking

Unique

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.

Class

Gay

Two

Death is just nature’s way of making room for the less experienced.

Rooms

Way

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

Bigs

Ideas

Theme

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’.

Healthy

Police

World

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.

Book

Giving

New Work

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

Character

Crime

Thinking

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.

Lunch

Two

Years

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.

Machines

Might

Sorry

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

Close Minded

Open Minded

Police

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Afterlife

Airports

Atmosphere

Bigs

Book

Character

Class

Close Minded

Communication

Crime

Degrees

Different

Emotional

Fun

Gay

Giving

Healthy

Ideas

Important

Iphone

Letting Go

Lunch

Machines

Makeup

Mean

Might

Military

Murder

Needs

New Work

Night

Open Minded

People

Police

Process

Radio

Real

Rooms

Sea

Serendipity

Sorry

Successful

Sunday

Theme

Thinking

Two

Unique

Wall

War

Way

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Quotes by Peter James

Peter James

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.

Death is just nature’s way of making room for the less experienced.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

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’.

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.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

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.

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.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

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