British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.
Ruth Rendell
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'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
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I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
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I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.
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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
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How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
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I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.
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I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
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We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
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I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
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