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
difficulty quite
I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
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.
I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.
people sure
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
detective life spend
I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
aloud clumsy great possible rewrite sort work
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.
characters fascinated obsessions people
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.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
given people
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.
villains
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
barbara believe
I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.
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