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
book reading life-is
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
children heart secret
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
injured dislike
we dislike those we've injured.
character shoes boots
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
lying order places-to-go
there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.
philosophy thinking broads
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
sex crazy men
We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?
live-in-the-present
Nobody really lives in the present.
weather world variables
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
enemy faces forget
We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
years civilization car
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
classic should novel
To be a classic, a novel should be original.
light growing invisible
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
worst happened liberating
The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.