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" 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.' "

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" Reading taught me how to write. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

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

" 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 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. "

" In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. "

" Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. "

" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "

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

" I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. "

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

" I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all. "

" I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

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

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

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