List of Peter James Quotes

The Biggest Qualification To Be A Good Police Officer Is To Have A High Degree Of Emotional Intelligence.

Obviously I Don't Have Whatever It Is You Need To Be A Successful Writer.

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.

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'.

If You And I Took A Walk Down A Shopping Street In Jo'burg Or Cape Town Or London, We See Two Guys Looking In A Shop Window, We Think, "oh, They're Wondering What They're Going To Buy." A Cop Looks At Them And Thinks, "why Are They Standing There? Are They Doing A Drug Deal? Are They Going To Mug Someone? Are They Going To Rob The Shop?"

I've Always Been Much More Scared Of The Living Than I Am Of The Dead.

There's No Question That Ghosts Exist. The Big Question For Me Is Whether Ghosts Are Simply Electronic Imprints Left In The Walls Or The Atmosphere Of Places, Or Whether They Do Actually Represent Something From The Afterlife.

Most Good Police Officers Are Very Open-minded. The Bad Ones Are The Ones Who Are Close-minded.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.

I Never Actually Wanted To Write Horror, Oddly Enough. It Was A Kind Of Misnomer, Because I Didn't Ever Actually Write Horror In The Sense Of The Genre Known For It. It Was More A Type Of Pigeon-holing In Bookshops.

We're Full Of Electricity, And The Walls And Floor Of A Building Contain Carbon - The Same Makeup As A Video Tape - And I Think We Give Off A Huge Amount Of Energy. Some People Are Able To See That And Pick That Up. I Think Almost Every Person I've Met In My Life Has Had Some Sort Of Experience That They Can't Explain, And Those Fascinate Me.

There's A Difference Between What I Call A Dumb Ghost And A Smart Ghost. The Smart Ghost Is Hamlet's Father - You Know, He Says, "get Revenge, My Son!" That's Incredibly Rare. It's Much More The Grey Lady In The Same Place Everyday, Moving Across The Floor.