Peter Mayle quotes

Best advice I've ever received: Finish. (Peter Mayle)

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Peter Mayle

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

Peter Mayle

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

Peter Mayle

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

Peter Mayle

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.

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There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Peter Mayle

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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Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

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The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

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No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food. (Peter Mayle)

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Peter Mayle

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Peter Mayle

Very little happens in my books.

Peter Mayle

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Peter Mayle

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.

Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle

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Occupation: British Author
Born: June 14, 1939
Died: January 18, 2018
Quotes count: 16

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