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 never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
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'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
morning nine
I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.
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I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.
anywhere drawn fictional near
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
crimes fear people
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
attract everybody wants
Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
best-love world-love lovers
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
psychology human-nature trouble
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
worst happened liberating
The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.
live-in-the-present
Nobody really lives in the present.
injured dislike
we dislike those we've injured.
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unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.
awful lack mind society
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.