Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Isabelle Greenwoodis an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard"...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 June 1954
CountryAustralia
people
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.
account looked
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.
based detectives flawed
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.
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.
ditch work
My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
buy seen time victoria
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.
ballet city love taken time
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.
I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
love
I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
arbiter indicator money terribly
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.
intensely interested visitors
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
war
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
gets hanging hard large nine onto point seven
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.
adding aware bound finding genre layer plots spin stories writers
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.