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
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
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.
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.
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.
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
Exclusive will not be published in book format.
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
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.
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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 was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle