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" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

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

Ruth Rendell

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Women

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice. "

" 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. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Bad

Very

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

" I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away. "

" 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. "

Ruth Rendell

Money

Think

" I don't mind being distracted. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' "

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

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

" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "

" Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "