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" 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. "

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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. "

Ruth Rendell

Sitting

Chair

House

" I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. "

" I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom. "

" 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. "

" I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic. "

Ruth Rendell

Seem

Magic

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

Ruth Rendell

Book

Kindle

" 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. "

" I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry. "

Ruth Rendell

Seldom

Been

" 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. "

" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "

" 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

" I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. "

" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "

" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "

Ruth Rendell

Live

Fear

" 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 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. "

" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "

" I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. "

" I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "