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"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate."
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"I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again."

"Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes."

"At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life."

"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."

"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."

"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
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