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" I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

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

" I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it. "

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

" I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader. "

" I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. "

" I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. "

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

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

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

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

" I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice. "

" '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 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. "

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

" Reading taught me how to write. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "