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.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.