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"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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