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" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "

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" I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. "

" It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. "

" I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

" 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 knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament. "

" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "

" As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds. "

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

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

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

" I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. "

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

" I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while. "

" The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better. "

" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "

" Reading taught me how to write. "

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

" I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write. "

" I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. "

" My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible. "

" 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 don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away. "

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

" I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

" 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 want to be a fusty old lady writer. "