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I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.

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Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

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If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

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Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

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I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

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As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

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You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

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I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

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Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

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I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: February 17th, 1930

Died: May 2nd, 2015

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