Kerry Greenwood quotes

Kerry Greenwood quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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!”
-- Kerry Greenwood

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“There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.”
-- Kerry Greenwood

Source : Kerry Greenwood (2004). “Queen of the Flowers”, p.10, Allen & Unwin

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“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”
-- Kerry Greenwood

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“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.”
-- Kerry Greenwood

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“And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.”
-- Kerry Greenwood

Source : Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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