Peter James West Quotes & Sayings

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step. — Peter James West

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver. — Peter James West

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. — Peter James West

He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be. — Peter James West

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.
I kept on walking. — Peter James West

To read is human, to review is divine. — Peter James West

Skill is no substitute for luck. — Peter James West

Never try to swim through a sharp rock.
Go around! Go around! — Peter James West

Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment. — Peter James West

The Walker towered over him like a half-built skyscraper with a bad attitude. Its bulbous silver head was home to so many weapons that Nick couldn't even count them. He couldn't even name half of them. — Peter James West

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until next week. — Peter James West

It's all good, apart from the raisins. — Peter James West

Walk tall but don't bang your head on low hanging branches. — Peter James West

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them. — Peter James West

When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck. — Peter James West

You don't have to succeed. You just need to stop failing. — Peter James West

Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing. — Peter James West

You're everything I ever wished for.
I just didn't wish for much. — Peter James West

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it. — Peter James West

Damen could tell that there was something not right about the whole thing, and he knew that his brother was at the bottom of it. One thousand credits could do a whole lot to help a man forget what he knew. — Peter James West

We are all born innocent. It doesn't last long. — Peter James West

Too many questions had been left unanswered. Every day there were new rumours saying that the Kamari numbers were growing. Nick wondered why so many people were joining them. — Peter James West

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Fart and you're on your own. — Peter James West

It's surprising what you can fail to achieve if you really put your mind to it. — Peter James West

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain. — Peter James West

I am the sum of my past experience.
Some people have got a lot to answer for. — Peter James West

Giving up drinking for life is easy.
I've done it loads of times. — Peter James West

Knowing something and acting on it are not the same thing. Knowledge without the application of what has been learned is useless. — Peter James West

When you think it's finished, that is the time to begin. — Peter James West

I don't mind snorkeling. I just wish the sharks would get out of the ocean and go sit on the sun loungers while I do it. — Peter James West

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did. — Peter James West

The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional. — Peter James West

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.
The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. — Peter James West

Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down. — Peter James West

Follow your dreams but stop if you come to a cliff edge. — Peter James West

Today I tried to pick up something I was standing on. It didn't work out well. — Peter James West

I don't know what exactly it is that I don't know, but I know I don't know something. — Peter James West

If at first you don't succeed, blame someone else and hide behind a bush. — Peter James West

You only get one life.
Too bad you already made a mess of it. — Peter James West

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced. — Peter James West

Damen Trent pushed his fat fingers between the blinds, peering across the street. Sure enough, all the windows of the Mekinet News building were in darkness. — Peter James West

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain? — Peter James West

Surviving ain't thriving. — Peter James West

From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides. — Peter James West

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. — Peter James West