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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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'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.' "

" 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 exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "

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

" I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. "

" 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 never write about a place I don't know. "

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