Top 32 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

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.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

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.

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.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

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

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

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.

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.