I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.