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
two widows wonderful
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
psychology human-nature trouble
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
real names perfect
Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.
character cutting insult
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
best-love world-love lovers
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
thinking would-be humiliating
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
dream real may
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
thinking want driven
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
bad
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
full gets kinds rather sum
I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.
noise annoying
they say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...