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All Quotes by author - Ruth Rendell
" As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds. "
Things
People
Know
" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "
Had
Stroke
Parents
" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "
More
Live
Fear
" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "
Long
Fame
Attention
" Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. "
Soldier
Language
Good
" Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. "
Enough
Bad
Blood
" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "
Cancer
Allow
Poverty
" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "
Will
Scandal
Max
" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "
Night
Mark
Mad
" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "
Down
Write
Going
" I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all. "
Believe
Vine
I Believe
" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "
Me
Always
Attract
" I always write about what interests me. "
Interests
About
Write
" 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
Curious
I Am
" I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "
Look
I Am
Baby
" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "
I Think
I Am
Think
" I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next. "
Believe
Important
You
" I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "
Change
Person
Open
" I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "
Start
I Am
Book
" I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write. "
Myself
Always
Doing
" 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
Who
Think
" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "
Choose
Political
Heroes
" I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "
Unpleasant
Pride
Me
" I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't. "
Writing
People
Anything
" I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen. "
Always
Want
Sun
" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "
My Life
Life
Feel
" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "
Great
Care
Easy
" I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "
Most
Think
Dark
" 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. "
Crime
People
More
" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "
Know
Write
Would
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