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" It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine. "
Ruth Rendell
Looks
Medicine
Will
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Love
" I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know. "
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" I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books. "
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" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "
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Mad
" 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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People
Who
Think
" I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. "
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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
" 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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Job
Most
People
" I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. "
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Character
Myself
Really
" I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place. "
Ruth Rendell
Think
Pleasant
World
" 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
" 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
Me
" I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. "
Ruth Rendell
Feel
Succeed
Think
" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "
Ruth Rendell
Foolish
Public
Want
" I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. "
Ruth Rendell
About
Morning
Nine
" 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. "
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People
Writing
Short
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
People
Curious
I Am
" I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes. "
Ruth Rendell
Carry
London
Good
" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "
Ruth Rendell
Cancer
Allow
Poverty
" The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better. "
Ruth Rendell
Know
Better
Want
" 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
Grief
Women
Lose
" I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "
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Away
Give
Money
" I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place. "
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Moving
Business
Night
" I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. "
Ruth Rendell
Crime
People
More
" 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. "
Ruth Rendell
Long
Fame
Attention
" We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person. "
Ruth Rendell
Complicated
Person
People
" I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. "
Ruth Rendell
Book
Kindle
Like
" I never write about a place I don't know. "
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Never
About
Write
" I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "
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Good
Money
Think
" 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. "
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Death
Heart
Man