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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. "

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" Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option. "

" I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader. "

" I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "

" 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 don't mind being distracted. "

" I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. "

" People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. "

" 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 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. "

" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "

" I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen. "

" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "

" I always write about what interests me. "

" It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals. "