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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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.
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Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
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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.
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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.
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Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.
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I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
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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.
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People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!