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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. "

" 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. "

" In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. "

" There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. "

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

" 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. "

" I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' "

" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

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

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

" It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. "

" I don't mind being distracted. "

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

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

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