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" 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. "

Ruth Rendell

My Life

Life

Change

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Ruth Rendell

Crime

Tired

" 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 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. "

" 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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" I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. "

Ruth Rendell

Really

Books

" In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. "

" I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. "

" Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. "

Ruth Rendell

Live

Fear

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

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

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

Ruth Rendell

Bad

Very

" 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. "

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

" I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away. "

" I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. "

Ruth Rendell

Book

Kindle

" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left. "

" 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. "

" 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 was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. "

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