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
ate berries grew stomach visit
My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped.
people
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
books carefully characters exciting favourite ford good love studied
My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.
fit
I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
carry good notebook pick
I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
women
Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
saw
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
good love people reader recovering stroke
People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
love seem
I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
beginning domestic hatred love quotes straight suppose talked
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.
brutality crime dramas lots nasty people showing shrink sooner time torture turn
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.
perhaps
I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.
activities characters disclose future judging noticed novice readers recent reveal work writers
In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.