British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.
Ruth Rendell
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My mother had multiple sclerosis.
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People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
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I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.
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People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.
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I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.
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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
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The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
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Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.
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'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
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I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.
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I always write about what interests me.
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