I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.