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

" I don't mind being distracted. "

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

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" 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 don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. "

" Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "

Ruth Rendell

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

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

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

" I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' "

" I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. "

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

" I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "

" 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. "

" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. "

" I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "

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

" There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. "

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

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

" It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. "

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

" My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. "