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
Ruth Rendell quotes about
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The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
absolutely bad feminists unless women
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.
life
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
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.
happen longer men nobody older ruth wants women
Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.
concerned felt remain shyness ways widespread
I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
bad
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
people
People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
bad
I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.
people perhaps
People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.
aspects
I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
amount certainly money people
I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
appearing fear
I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.
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.