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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' "

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

" I always write about what interests me. "

" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" 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. "

" As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds. "

" It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. "

" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

" I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "

" 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. "