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

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

" It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

" 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. "

" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

" My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible. "

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

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

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

" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. "

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

" I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. "

" 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 don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen. "

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

" 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. "