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
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.
detective life spend
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
given ipod life
I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.
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.
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.
life
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
life people
The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.
book reading life-is
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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.
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?