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.

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• Jeffrey Archer:

  We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offe

• Jeffrey Archer:

  But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was educ

• Jeffrey Archer:

  Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

• Jeffrey Archer:

  Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terr

• Jeffrey Archer:

  But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make

• Jeffrey Archer:

  I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was

• Jeffrey Archer:

  And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come

• Jeffrey Archer:

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• Jeffrey Archer:

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

• Jeffrey Archer:

  I've loved art for more than 30 years.