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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

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In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

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I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

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It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

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While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

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

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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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