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

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

" Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans. "

" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

" Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life. "

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

" 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. "

" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

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

" 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. "

" Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "

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

" I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it. "

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

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

" People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. "

" I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

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

" 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. "

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

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