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" 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 don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. "

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

" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "

" 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. "

" People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

" Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief. "

" 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. "

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

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person. "

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

" 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. "

" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

" I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

" 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. "