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" It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. "
Ruth Rendell
Elegance
Book
You
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" Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. "
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" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. "
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" Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. "
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" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "
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" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "
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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. "
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" It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. "
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" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "
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" 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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" I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write. "
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" I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. "
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" Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did. "
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" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "
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Life
Feel
" My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. "
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Business
" 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. "
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" Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. "
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" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "
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" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "
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" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "
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" I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' "
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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. "
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" I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while. "
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" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "
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