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
attract everybody wants
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.
difference famous knock work writer
You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
change doubt life quite separate sure upset
Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.
agree twain
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
enjoy love people
I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.
max
Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
allow god sheer
How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
crimes fear people
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
both father horribly last parents
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
goes soon
As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
activities characters disclose future judging noticed novice readers recent reveal work writers
In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.
perhaps
I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.