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" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
People
Who
Think
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" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "
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Cats
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" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "
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Think
Death
Every Day
" 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. "
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People
Curious
I Am
" In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. "
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Time
Disease
" I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like. "
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Think
Lonely
" 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me. "
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Me
Book
Story
" It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on. "
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Disagree
Know
Friends
" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "
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People
Kind
Love
" 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'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "
Ruth Rendell
Love
Years
Shoe
" I don't mind being distracted. "
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Distracted
Mind
Being
" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "
Ruth Rendell
Multiple
Had
Mother
" I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage. "
Ruth Rendell
Myself
Manage
I Can
" I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. "
Ruth Rendell
Unpleasant
Pride
Me
" I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "
Ruth Rendell
Look
I Am
Baby
" I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. "
Ruth Rendell
Done
Big
Going
" 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.' "
Ruth Rendell
Desire
Street
Car
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
Cats
Food
Bathroom
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
People
Writing
Short
" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left. "
Ruth Rendell
Yes
Women
Bad
" 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. "
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Soldier
Language
Good
" My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. "
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Mother
Street
She
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
I Am
I Can
Want
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
Believe
Important
You
" Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans. "
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I Am
Women
Random
" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "
Ruth Rendell
Jealousy
Details
Knives
" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "
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Night
Mark
Mad
" I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "
Ruth Rendell
Choose
Political
Heroes
" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "
Ruth Rendell
Involved
Police
Good
" I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "
Ruth Rendell
Anybody
Certainly
Bad