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

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" 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. "

" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

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

" 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 don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

" I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "

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

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "

" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

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

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

" 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 do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "