Ruth Rendell Quotes

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.

Ruth Rendell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfWritingSmallSpeakStory

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Jeremy Stoppelman

BusinessThinkFinancialInternet

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

John Mackey

SelfishYouSayWantGreedyBig

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

Ann McKee

LifeFootballGrowing UpYouBorn

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

John Tiffany

PeopleThinkJust BecauseWillRight

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

Stephnie Weir

MomentPeopleLookingEnergyDoing

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

Travis Beacham

ExperienceWorldBuildingSummer

No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that's going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.

Rob Dyrdek

MorningLightWorldLightsRunTop

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

LightDayWordsBaseballBlameGame

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

Marv Levy

LieYouKnowWantNothingRetire

'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery, a new system of racial and social control was born, known as 'convict leasing.'

Michelle Alexander

SlaveryControlBookThinkNameEnd

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

Joshua Leonard

RealityAmericanYouCinemaWatching

What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

Dorothea Dix

FlowerHomeMountainsManCountry

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