British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
Ruth Rendell
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I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.
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I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
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I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
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I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.
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It's absolutely essential to my life. 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.
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I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.
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Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
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Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
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I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.
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