British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.
Ruth Rendell
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My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.
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I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
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I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.
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I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.
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I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.
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Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
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I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
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I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.
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Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
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If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.
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Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.
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