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
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Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.
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We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
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I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.
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I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
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People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
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I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
women
Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
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I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
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I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.
I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.
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I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
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I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.