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" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "

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" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 the world is a particularly pleasant place. "

" Reading taught me how to write. "

" 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'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like. "

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

" I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. "

" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

" I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write. "

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

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

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

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

" I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader. "

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

" The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. "

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

" 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 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 go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. "