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" I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen. "

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

" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice. "

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

" I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it. "

" The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better. "

" I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. "

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

" 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 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 a soft spot for charities that help children. "

" 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. "

" My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible. "

" I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. "

" I never write about a place I don't know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. "

" 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. "

" Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell. "

" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

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

" It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

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