Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBEwas an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 February 1930
good people
I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
began chimney derives previous
'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
good
'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
people
I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.
carry good notebook pick
I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
writing
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.
book i-can
I can't exist without books.
women taken two
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.
interesting london staircases
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.
sorry thinking trying
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
self talking listening
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
knives details
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
writing people letters
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
worry different stories
While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.