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
pretend sweetness
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
afternoon house lords satisfying sitting
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.
difficulty quite
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.
people
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.
people sure
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
detective life spend
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
aloud clumsy great possible rewrite sort work
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.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.
hope nobody shakespeare time unless
Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.
people
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
age
I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
job people
Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.