British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
Ruth Rendell
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As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
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You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
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I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.
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Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.
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I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.
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I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.
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I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
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I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
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I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.
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I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
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I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.
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