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" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

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" It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine. "

" If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. "

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

" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "

" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

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

" I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. "

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

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

" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "

" You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process. "

" I have a soft spot for charities that help children. "

" My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "

" 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. "