Words matter. These are the best Kerry Greenwood Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.
I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything – still am.
Sometimes it’s hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point – usually between chapter seven and nine – then it’s like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.
I’m a duty solicitor, so I can’t fix someone’s life; all I can do is fix the problem I’ve got in front of my eyes.
I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I’m doing the same with Phryne – she’s my mainstay.
I didn’t want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.
A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.
In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn’t speak English.
I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I’m going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn’t going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.
There’s something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I’m still mildly agog about that.
Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.
If you look at the map, there’s Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there’s tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.
I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I’m not going to convince myself, and if I can’t convince myself, then I’m not going to convince the reader.
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
