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

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

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

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

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

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

" 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. "

" We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person. "

" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

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

" 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 I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.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've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. "

" I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. "

" I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic. "

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

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

" It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals. "

" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

" 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me. "

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

" I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

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

" 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 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. "

" My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible. "

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

" It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

" 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. "