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" I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament. "

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

" 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 didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to 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 started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't. "

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

" 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 don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

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

" 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 have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

" I always write about what interests me. "

" 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. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "

" Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did. "

" I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. "

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

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

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

" 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me. "

" I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break. "

" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

" I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while. "