If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.