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You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

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

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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'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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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 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'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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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 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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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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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Author

Born: June 17th, 1954

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