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Peter Temple
Australian
Writer
Born:
1946
Australia
Crime
Men
People
Writing
Your
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I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
Peter Temple
Morning
Plot
Characters
Having
Like
Up
Get
Reason
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.
Peter Temple
You
Heart
Dan
Out
Responses
Kind
Window
Brown
Emotional
Between
Look
Pierce
Make
Read
Real
Real Difference
Difference
Literature
Sentence
Then
Your
Twice
Elicit
Pulp
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.
Peter Temple
Life
Men
Fears
Long
Some
Some Men
Seems
Attempt
Doing
Escape
Childhood
Us
Many
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
Peter Temple
People
Else
High
Bored
High Point
Something
Something Else
Point
Along
Come
Get
Want
Then
Your
Career
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.
Peter Temple
Women
People
Men
Intrigued
More
Cabinet
Particular
Like
Making
Lot
Than
Interested
Really
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