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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

" 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 think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. "

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

" People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. "

" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break. "

" 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. "

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

" I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "

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" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

" I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. "