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

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" 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. "

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

" I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that 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. "

" I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next. "

" My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. "

" Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character. "

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

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

" I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real! "

" Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. "

" 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 want to be a fusty old lady writer. "

" Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. "

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

" 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 was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. "

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

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

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

" The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. "

" I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. "

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