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

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" If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. "

" You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. "

" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

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

" 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. "

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" I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "

" 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 always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "

" I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "

" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" I'm not much of an eater. "

" 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'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "

" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "

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" 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. "

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