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Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood
Australian Author
Born: Jun 17, 1954
Because Books Detective Love Writing You
Related authors: Ben Peek Catherine Helen Spence Colleen McCullough Gregory David Roberts Kate Forsyth Liane Moriarty Markus Zusak Zoe Foster Blake
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. Kerry Greenwood
War World Worse Read Than Stories Anything Ever World War World War I
You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. Kerry Greenwood
You Crime Solution Detective Need
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. Kerry Greenwood
Life Eyes Problem Duty Solicitor Someone Got Fix Front
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
Day Book People Writing Three First Year Living Extra Unless Books Correct Out Has-Been TV Detail Costs Write Since Major Most She Make Course Deal Doing Been Historical Very American Gets Movie American Film Reasonable Film
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. Kerry Greenwood
Love Time First Melbourne City Taken First Time Always Ballet Go Been Grandmother
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. Kerry Greenwood
Class Woman Hero About Give Write Disadvantages Had Advantages She Because Female Going Being Want Decided Serious Her
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. Kerry Greenwood
Best Speak World School Met Corners Best Friend Had She Learn Because Friend Greek Children Which English Basic
My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it. Kerry Greenwood
Work Sometimes Carefully Ditch Idea Because Prove Very
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
Me Our Everything Tell Visitors Would Demand House Am Still Child Intensely Story Interested
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
You Chapter Sometimes Nine Seven Once Point Onto Between Like Reach Snowball Gets Going Hanging Tipping Then Hard Large Downhill Start
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one. Kerry Greenwood
Crime Reading Books Tried Write Never Had Since Been Child Ever
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. Kerry Greenwood
Writing First Books Way Characters Detectives Some Noir Because Female Were Flawed Based Started
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. Kerry Greenwood
You Down Else About Magical Someone Something Write Idea Read Still
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
People Writing Logical Just Do It Think Other Books Way Write Very Any Just Process Sensible Reasonable Binge Fast
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
World Become Extra Adding Plots Finding Spin Only Layer Writers Bound New Most Genre Read Because Very Duplication Happen Stories Many Original Aware
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
Plots Lies Detective Detective Story Only Writer Know Most Readers Audience Does Educated Story Interest Them Certain Number
I liked the Ballarat train as a child. Kerry Greenwood
Liked Train Child

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