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" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "

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" 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. "

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

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

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

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

" Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. "

" 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. "

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" Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. "

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

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

" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "

" 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. "

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

" Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character. "

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

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

" I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. "

" People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. "

" 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 like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "

" I'm not much of an eater. "

" 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. "

" It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. "

" Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did. "

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