Quotes from Jeffrey Archer

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

No time like the present

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

No time like the present

My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?

It pains me to think how much you are worth now. I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.

Sometimes it's an advantage to be disadvantaged

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone." Your