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" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "

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" I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom. "

" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

" It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals. "

" I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't. "

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

" I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets. "

" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

" If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. "

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me. "

" I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place. "

" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

" I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. "

" I have a soft spot for charities that help children. "

" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "

" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "

" I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave. "

" I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "

" I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen. "

" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

" Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. "

" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left. "

" I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. "

" I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. "

" I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. "

" Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. "

" I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. "