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
buried finding finds flowers gardens goes gone houses indeed instead killer lived next serial sinister street trees turned victims
I think what would I do next if, as in his case, he goes to look at the place where a serial killer lived and indeed buried his victims and instead of finding this very squalid and sinister street he finds it's all gone and the whole place has been turned into a very pretty little enclave of small, pretty houses and gardens and trees and flowers and cobbled streets.
background childhood grew sort wants
I think about what kind of a background he had, what sort of childhood he had, how he grew up, what he does for a living, the way he wants to live,
cheerful people quite
People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.
attempted illiterate man obscene says totally
I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.
appearing fear
I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.
feminists unless women
I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
allow church finishes god life question sheer simply terrible
I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.
house lived teacher
I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.
life maybe tired
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
bathroom food large minutes open six work
I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle.
barbara believe
I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.
added bad blood burden early far further illnesses itself less
Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse.
awful lack mind society
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
people
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.