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
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.
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.
tiny
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.
archeology fell histories love myths
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.
I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
books since tried
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
shooting trying war zone
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.
criminal determined
I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.