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.

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.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.