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" 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. "

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

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

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. "

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

" I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real! "

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

" You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. "

" I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. "

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

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

" I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "

" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "

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

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

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

" I don't mind being distracted. "

" 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'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. "