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 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 do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

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 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.

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.

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

I do Q&As, not readings.