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 - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.
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I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.
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I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
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People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.
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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'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.
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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
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It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
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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.
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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.
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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
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Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.