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
awful business deal father great guilt knew later ms multiple nobody suffer suffered
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.
ought
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
given ipod life
I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.
morning nine
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.
I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
appeal business enjoy love settling
I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.
good money people
I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
characters fascinated obsessions people
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
given people
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.
villains
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
people whom
I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
columns interested run
I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.
believe happens novel reader
I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.