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
english favourite ford good possibly
Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.
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.
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.
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.
good kept lose nicer none others people tried turning various wrote
I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
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.
aloud clumsy great possible rewrite sort work
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.
characters fascinated obsessions people
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
given people
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.
pretend sweetness
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
people sure
I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
feminists unless women
I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
cupboard large quite stuffed
I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
background childhood grew sort wants
I think about what kind of a background he had, what sort of childhood he had, how he grew up, what he does for a living, the way he wants to live,