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
good telling
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
good thinks whereas
Whereas most of us would think that's a very good thing, he doesn't. He thinks this is sacrilege, this is desecration.
cop created series
Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
appeal business enjoy love settling
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.
good money people
I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
life maybe tired
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.
bathroom food large minutes open six work
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.
awful lack mind society
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.
along change deceive last
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.
charities
I have a soft spot for charities that help children.
I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
afternoon house lords satisfying sitting
I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.