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

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" 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. "

" Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. "

" 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 like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "

" It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. "

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

" 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. "

" I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. "

" 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. "

" Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character. "

" Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. "

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

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

" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

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

" I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. "

" I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. "

" I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "

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

" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

" I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes. "

" I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away. "

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