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 More Quotes by Kerry Greenwood More Quotes From Kerry Greenwood I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor. Kerry Greenwood help look lawyer poor 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 story child me house 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. Kerry Greenwood market queen seen time 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 chapter start you sometimes 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 doing old-age age remember 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 she story thought me I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one. Kerry Greenwood never child crime reading 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 books some writing way I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read. Kerry Greenwood words like writing love 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 down something someone you
