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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Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.
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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.
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My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.
I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.
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I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.
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I have a soft spot for charities that help children.
I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.
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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
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I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.
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Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
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How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
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Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
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Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.