I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does. Kerry Greenwood More Quotes by Kerry Greenwood More Quotes From Kerry Greenwood 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! Kerry Greenwood buns writing book 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. Kerry Greenwood orbit kitchen two 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. Kerry Greenwood bored annoyed husband 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. Kerry Greenwood angel grief wise The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. Kerry Greenwood world-war-i anything war world 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 words find legends love You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. Kerry Greenwood solution need you crime 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 eyes someone problem life 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 writing book people 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 city go time love 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 woman i-can serious hero 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. Kerry Greenwood loved fun night long Unanswered questions make my head itch. Kerry Greenwood itch head make questions 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 children world school 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. Kerry Greenwood you clothes money important My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it. Kerry Greenwood because prove work sometimes 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 find eyes innocent want 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. Kerry Greenwood only small look you 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. Kerry Greenwood think you war way 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. Kerry Greenwood parents classmates smart lucky
