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I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.

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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.

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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

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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.

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My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

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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.

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I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

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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.

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I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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