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" Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. "

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" I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away. "

" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

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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. "

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" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "

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

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