‘In the course of my own research I have been shut in the cells at the local police station, interviewed a rape counsellor and got lots of secrets out of a high class madam and prostitute.’
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‘If I had ever experienced a tenth of what I write about I would have long ago been consigned to a padded cell, or be six feet under. I write to escape what I know.’
‘As a housewife, I fail; as a writer, I need bad housekeeping.’