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
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I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.
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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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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
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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.
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I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.
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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.
I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.
people
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. 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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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
love
I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.