I don’t steal stories. If I’m a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
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. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
There are only so many stories in the world… Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
I don’t think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It’s not logical, and it’s not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
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. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
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. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one. Kerry Greenwood Read Quote
