British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
Ruth Rendell
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I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.
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I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.
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It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
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Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse.
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In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.
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The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
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I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.
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The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
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