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" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always write about what interests me. "

" 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 don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

" I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. "

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

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

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

" If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. "

" Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. "

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

" 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. "

" I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

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

" I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave. "

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

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