Kerry Greenwood

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

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.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.