Kerry Greenwood Quotes

Australian - Author | June 17, 1954 -

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

Kerry Greenwood

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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.

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I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

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You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

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There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

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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.

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I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

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I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write.

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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.

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I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

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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.

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I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

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