110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

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.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

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.

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.