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" 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. "
Kerry Greenwood
Seen
Time
Queen
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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 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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" 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. "
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" I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I liked the Ballarat train as a child. "
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" 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. "
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" A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it. "
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" 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. "
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Best
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She
" I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare. "
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Hitchcock
Shakespeare
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" As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. "
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Me
House
" 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. "
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Eyes
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" I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent. "
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Eyes
" The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read. "
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World War I
War
Worse
" 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. "
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" I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Always
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" I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read. "
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