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
fictional resembles
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
compulsive
I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
awful sounds
It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.
life
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
profoundly
It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
deal fade gradually great private shall
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
younger
I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.
began chimney derives previous
'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
good
'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
writing
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.
book i-can
I can't exist without books.
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.
interesting london staircases
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.