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" 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. "

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" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

" 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 am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage. "

" 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. "

" I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "

" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "

" I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books. "

" I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

" Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. "

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

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

" I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process. "

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

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

" People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. "

" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "

" I'm not much of an eater. "

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

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

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

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

" I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. "