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" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "
Ruth Rendell
Down
Write
Going
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away. "
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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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" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "
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" I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. "
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Chair
House
" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "
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" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "
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" I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. "
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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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Always
Famous
" Reading taught me how to write. "
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Reading
Taught
" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "
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Books
" 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. "
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Process
Lot
" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "
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Kind
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" 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. "
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Know
Feel
Why
" 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. "
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Hope
Long
" People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. "
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Good
Better
Help
" 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. "
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Young Man
Laugh
Think
" I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "
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Money
Think
Me
" I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books. "
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Two
Large
Cupboard
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You
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