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I can't exist without books.
— Ruth Rendell
I kill, therefore I am.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.
— Ruth Rendell
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
— Ruth Rendell
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
— Ruth Rendell
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
— Ruth Rendell
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
— Ruth Rendell
It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.
— Ruth Rendell
To be a classic, a novel should be original.
— Ruth Rendell
People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.
— Ruth Rendell
Nobody really lives in the present.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
— Ruth Rendell
I'm not much of an eater.
— Ruth Rendell
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't mind being distracted.
— Ruth Rendell
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
— Ruth Rendell
Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
— Ruth Rendell
I always write about what interests me.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.
— Ruth Rendell
Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
— Ruth Rendell
I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.
— Ruth Rendell
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
— Ruth Rendell
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
— Ruth Rendell
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
— Ruth Rendell
newer here? There were no dense brambles,
— Ruth Rendell
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
— Ruth Rendell
She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.
— Ruth Rendell
Reading taught me how to write.
— Ruth Rendell
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
— Ruth Rendell
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
— Ruth Rendell
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.
— Ruth Rendell
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
— Ruth Rendell
The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
— Ruth Rendell
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
— Ruth Rendell
I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.
— Ruth Rendell
I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
— Ruth Rendell
Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.
— Ruth Rendell
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
— Ruth Rendell
We dislike those we've injured.
— Ruth Rendell
It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.
— Ruth Rendell
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
— Ruth Rendell
The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.
— Ruth Rendell
I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.
— Ruth Rendell
I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
— Ruth Rendell
I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
— Ruth Rendell
I have a soft spot for charities that help children.
— Ruth Rendell
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
— Ruth Rendell
My mother had multiple sclerosis.
— Ruth Rendell
I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.
— Ruth Rendell
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
— Ruth Rendell
I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
— Ruth Rendell
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
— Ruth Rendell
People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.
— Ruth Rendell
I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
— Ruth Rendell
He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.
— Ruth Rendell
People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.
— Ruth Rendell
I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
— Val McDermid
I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
— Ruth Rendell
She didn't really know London, only lived in it.
— Ruth Rendell
I never write about a place I don't know.
— Ruth Rendell
As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
— Ruth Rendell
I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.
— Ruth Rendell
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
— Ruth Rendell
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
— Ruth Rendell
