Jeffrey Archer Quotes

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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.
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
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.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
I do greatly admire Australian artists.
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 learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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.
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
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.
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
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.
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
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