Peter Temple

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.