Quotes by Kerry Greenwood

About Kerry Greenwood:

Kerry Greenwood is an Australian author and defence lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard".
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Kerry Greenwood

He could pass off the inferior bottles on tables seven and four. Table seven knew nothing of wine, sending back a bottle of Riesling as "corked" because it had bits of cork in it, the imbeciles. Table four had gulped down a very special old pale bran...

Kerry Greenwood

Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the...

Kerry Greenwood

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

Kerry Greenwood

The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if he...

Kerry Greenwood

Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!' 'Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering. 'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, ...

Kerry Greenwood

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

Kerry Greenwood

If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.

Kerry Greenwood

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death.

Kerry Greenwood

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

Author Bio

  • NameKerry Greenwood
  • DescriptionAustralian crime writer
  • BornJune 17, 1954
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist