110 Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

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.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

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.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

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.

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.