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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ruth Rendell

Know

Feel

Why

" 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 don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "

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

" I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break. "

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

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

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

" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "

" 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. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Women

Must

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

" I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. "

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

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

Ruth Rendell

Bad

Very

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

" 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. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Seldom

Been

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Unpleasant

Pride

" I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. "

Ruth Rendell

Crime

People

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

Ruth Rendell

Seem

Magic