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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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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