British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
Ruth Rendell
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People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!
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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
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Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
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Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
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Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
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Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
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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.
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Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
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Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.
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I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.
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I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.
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