Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBEwas an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 February 1930
sorry thinking trying
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
self talking listening
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
knives details
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
writing people letters
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
worry different stories
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.
book reading life-is
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
children heart secret
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
injured dislike
we dislike those we've injured.
character shoes boots
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
lying order places-to-go
there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.
philosophy thinking broads
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
sex crazy men
We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?
noise annoying
they say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...
live-in-the-present
Nobody really lives in the present.