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 sounds
It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.
younger
I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.
deal fade gradually great private shall
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
people quite sort
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
life
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
novelists philip sex
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
cop created series
Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
european holds literature thriller unusual whose work writer
unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.
good telling
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
good thinks whereas
Whereas most of us would think that's a very good thing, he doesn't. He thinks this is sacrilege, this is desecration.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
brought cold neighbors people rather sunshine warmth weather
The weather was still what people called glorious. He would rather it had been cold and gray, for this warmth and sunshine brought the neighbors out into their gardens.
apply
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
amount certainly money people
I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.