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
affects people
I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.
knew politics
I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
cupboard large quite stuffed
I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
good people
I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
aspects
I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
details few head narrative plot written
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.
car fond named orleans saw street tennessee
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
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.
fit
I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
age bent people rigorous stop
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.
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.
bad
I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
good money people
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
blood disease effects history time wrote
In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.