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
fictional resembles
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
amount money people sort
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
compulsive
I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
failure subjects
I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.
bad
I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.
details few head narrative plot written
I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
car fond named orleans saw street tennessee
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
concerned felt remain shyness ways widespread
I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
fit
I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
age bent people rigorous stop
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.
absolutely bad feminists unless women
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.
bad
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
blood disease effects history time wrote
In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.
interested religion
I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.