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

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" 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 like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

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

" We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person. "

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

" 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 get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. "

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

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

" 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 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 don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it. "

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

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

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

" My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. "

" 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. "

" 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 never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes. "

" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "

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

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

" It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

" I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. "

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

" I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave. "

" You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. "