Peter Temple
Peter Temple
Peter Templeis an award-winning Australian crime fiction writer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
CountryAustralia
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.