British - Writer | February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015
I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.
Ruth Rendell
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Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.
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I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.
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I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
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The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.
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I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.
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I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
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I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.
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It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
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There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
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Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
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Reading taught me how to write.
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