Jeffrey Archer

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

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

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

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

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.

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.

Chatterers are a menace.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

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.

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

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

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

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

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.