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" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

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" 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'm not much of an eater. "

" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "

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

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

" 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 think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

" I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while. "

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

" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. "

" I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. "

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

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

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

" I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. "

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

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

" I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. "

" I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice. "