British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I never write about a place I don't know.
Ruth Rendell
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I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.
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I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.
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I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins.
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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.
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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.
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Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.
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I have never been a foodie and am seldom very hungry.
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I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.
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I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.
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I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.
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I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.
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