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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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.
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I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
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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.
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I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
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I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.
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I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
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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.
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What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
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I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
people
I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.
I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.
people sure
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.