Peter James Quotes

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...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.

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.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

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.

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

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

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

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.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

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.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

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'.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

To read is human, to review is divine.

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.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

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

There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

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

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.