Peter James West Quotes

You don't have to succeed. You just need to stop failing.

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.

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

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

Playing an instrument is its own reward.
Cleaning out a spit valve is its own punishment.

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

Follow your dreams but stop if you come to a cliff edge.

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

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.

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

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

You're everything I ever wished for.
I just didn't wish for much.

Surviving ain't thriving.

Skill is no substitute for luck.

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.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Never try to swim through a sharp rock.
Go around! Go around!

Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.

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

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until next week.

He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Fart and you're on your own.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

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.