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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
detective life spend
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
book reading life-is
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
cop created series
Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
novelists philip sex
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
awful business deal father great guilt knew later ms multiple nobody suffer suffered
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.
ought
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
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.