Top 14 Quotes by Martha Grimes

My black cat was named Blackie.

The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one.

I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything.

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.

I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

I do Q&As, not readings.

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.