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" 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. "

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" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

" 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. "

" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "

" I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

" I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. "

" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "

" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

" It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. "

" I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage. "

" Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did. "

" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" I'm not much of an eater. "

" I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament. "

" 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. "

" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell. "

" I have a soft spot for charities that help children. "

" I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. "

" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

" I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better. "

" I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process. "

" I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave. "

" Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. "