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" I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present. "

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

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

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

" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. "

" 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 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. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

" I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books. "

" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

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

" 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 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. "

" '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. "

" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't. "

" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "

" I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them. "