” Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. “
” It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. “
” People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don’t need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. “
” The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. “
” Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. “
” Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. “
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