Quotes by Kerry Greenwood - Page 1

Unanswered questions make my head itch.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
Unanswered
Itch
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You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.
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Detective
Solution
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I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.
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Concealing
Doe
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The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
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World War I
World War
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I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.
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Determined
Poor
Criminal
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I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
Hitchcock
Shakespeare
Steal
Tolkien
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My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
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Prove
Carefully
Ditch
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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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Solicitor
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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.
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Demand
Visitors
Intensely
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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.
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Heroic
Shooting
Zone
War Zone
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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.
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Magical
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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.
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Heavy
Victoria
Queen
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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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Ballet
Melbourne
Love Time Always
Love Time City
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Clothes were terribly important in the '20s. They really were an arbiter of who you were and how much money you had: an indicator of social status.
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Arbiter
Terribly
How Much Money
Indicator
Status
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When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
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Detectives
Flawed
Noir
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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.
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Innocent
Account
Grown-Up
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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.
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Best Friend
Corners
Best World Children
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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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Archeology
Legends
Languages
Histories
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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.
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Admirable
Contract
Detective
Detective Story
Grabbed
Offered
Publisher
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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Classmates
Difficult
Helpful
Lucky
Smart
Amazingly
Parents
Literate
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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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Detective
Detective Story
Plots
Readers
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!
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Book
Buns
Writing
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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.
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Old Age
Relying
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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.
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Bulgaria
Greece
Tiny
Map
Peninsula
Small Part
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I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.
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Kitchen
Orbit
Two
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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.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
Nine
Snowball
Tipping
Chapter
Downhill
Hanging
Onto
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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.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
Binge
Just Do It
Logical
Reasonable
Sensible
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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.
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Every Night
Making Up
Sibling
Chore
New Story
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There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.
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Annoyed
Bored
Husband
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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.
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Convince
Reader
Tenth
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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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Disadvantages
Hero
Advantages
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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.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
Duplication
Genre
Adding
Aware
Original
Bound
Writers
Extra
Finding
Layer
Plots
Spin
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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.
Kerry Greenwood / Author
American Film
Historical
Reasonable
Day People Doing
Correct
Detail
Extra
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.
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Wise
Angel
Grief
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