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As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
Kerry Greenwood -
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.
Kerry Greenwood
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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.
Kerry Greenwood -
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
Kerry Greenwood -
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.
Kerry Greenwood -
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.
Kerry Greenwood -
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.
Kerry Greenwood -
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.
Kerry Greenwood