I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.