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What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

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I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle.

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I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

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People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

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

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I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

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My mother had multiple sclerosis.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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