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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

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I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

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The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

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Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

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I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

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I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

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I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

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I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 19th, 1925

Died: August 22nd, 2012

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