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 started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
becoming love people specialist strikes terror
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
people perhaps
People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.
people
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
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People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.
life people
The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.
good money people
I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
characters fascinated obsessions people
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
given people
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.
people whom
I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
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.
people sure
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
people
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
job people
Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.