Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mareis an English author and former politician. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament, but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt. Later, after a revival of his fortunes from the royalties of his best-selling novels, he became deputy chairman of the Conservative Partybefore resigning after another scandal, which would lead to the end of his career in elected office. He was made a life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1940
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.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
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 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!
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor