Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you … - Peter James

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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Peter James

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.

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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.

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. . . 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.

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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.

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The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

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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.

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