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

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" 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 love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic. "

" 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. "

" My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that. "

" I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. "

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

" I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

" I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it. "

" It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine. "

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

" 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 never write about a place I don't know. "

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

" I always write about what interests me. "

" I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all. "

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

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

" I'm not much of an eater. "

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

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

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

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

" I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. "