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
philosophy thinking broads
It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.
noise annoying
they say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...
weather world variables
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
enemy faces forget
We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.
years civilization car
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
injured dislike
we dislike those we've injured.
worry different stories
While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
knives details
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
sorry thinking trying
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
thinking would-be humiliating
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
women taken two
There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
difference famous knock work writer
You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
change doubt life quite separate sure upset
Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
european holds literature thriller unusual whose work writer
unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.