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" I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage. "

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" I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them. "

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

" I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets. "

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

" 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 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 I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

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

" I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "

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

" 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. "

" People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental. "

" I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament. "

" '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. "

" I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

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

" I always write about what interests me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. "

" 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. "

" I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader. "

" 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 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 went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. "

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

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