Top 32 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

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

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'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

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

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

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.