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" 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. "

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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. "

Ruth Rendell

Death

Heart

Man

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ruth Rendell

God

Goodbye

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. "

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

" There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. "

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

" 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. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Always

Attract

" 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. "

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

" As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds. "

" My mother had multiple sclerosis. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Ruth Rendell

Women

I Am

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

" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

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

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

" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "

" My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. "