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I'm not much of an eater.
I can't exist without books.
I don't mind being distracted.
we dislike those we've injured.
My mother had multiple sclerosis.
I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.
I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.
I have a soft spot for charities that help children.
I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.
I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.
I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.
I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.
I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.