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" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

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" I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. "

" 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. "

" I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry. "

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

" People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

" People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. "

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

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

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

" It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. "

" Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. "

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

" I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. "

" People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. "

" I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. "

" I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. "

" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "

" I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. "

" Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans. "