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• ‟ I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

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• ‟ 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

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• ‟ I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

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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 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 write about what interests me.

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• ‟ I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

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• ‟ I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

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• ‟ I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

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