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" I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "

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" 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. "

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

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my 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'm not much of an eater. "

" I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

" 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. "

" I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. "

" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. "

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

" I don't mind being distracted. "

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

" '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. "

" The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. "

" I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom. "

" I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. "

" Reading taught me how to write. "