Zitat des Tages von Kerry Greenwood:
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.
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.
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 used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.
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.
I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.
I liked the Ballarat train as a child.
There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
