British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
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.
Ruth Rendell
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I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
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While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
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I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
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I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
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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.
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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
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People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
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