Kerry Greenwood

Author

1954-06-17

Books by Kerry Greenwood

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First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!
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First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!
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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.
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Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill.
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I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
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Unanswered questions make my head itch.
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I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
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