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" 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. "

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" I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. "

Ruth Rendell

Teacher

School

She

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

" I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. "

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

" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "

" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "

" I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real! "

Ruth Rendell

Character

Who

" I'm not much of an eater. "

Ruth Rendell

Much

Eater

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

Ruth Rendell

Really

Books

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

Ruth Rendell

Book

Kindle

" I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' "

" Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. "

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" 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 think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

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

" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "

" 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. "

" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

" 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. "

" I don't mind being distracted. "

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

" I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

Ruth Rendell

Crime

Tired

" 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. "

" It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine. "

" I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. "

Ruth Rendell

God

Goodbye

" I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

" I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it. "