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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life. "

" Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. "

" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "

" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "

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

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

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

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

" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "

" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "

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

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

" 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 feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "

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

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

" 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 think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "