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" 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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" 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

" 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. "

" I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins. "

" The knives of jealousy are honed on details. "

" The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt. "

" I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books. "

Ruth Rendell

Crime

Tired

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. "

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

Ruth Rendell

Women

Must

" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

" 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 don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. "

" 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

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

Ruth Rendell

Bad

Very

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