I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

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

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

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.