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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

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

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

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 think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

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

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

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

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

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

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

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.

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

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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