When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. – Jeffrey Archer
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
I’m passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it’s got to be the comeback book. – Jeffrey Archer
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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! – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
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. – Jeffrey Archer
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment. – Jeffrey Archer
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. – Jeffrey Archer
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. – Jeffrey Archer
