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 never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
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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.
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I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
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I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
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I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
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I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
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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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I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
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I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.
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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.
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The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
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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.
I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.