Ruth Rendell Quotes

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

Ruth Rendell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015

Topics

WorkFuturePeopleShortJudging

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Jenny Mollen

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Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Robert Gibbs

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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

Andy Goldsworthy

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I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

Tracy Morgan

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I don't read the papers or watch TV.

Luis Suarez

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Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Jon Ronson

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I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

Denis Leary

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If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Chuck Pagano

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The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

Allan McNish

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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Pee Wee Reese

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