British - Author | June 14, 1939 - January 18, 2018
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
Peter Mayle
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I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.
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When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.
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There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.
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The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
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I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.
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I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.
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Very little happens in my books.
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