Ruth Rendell Quotes

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Ruth Rendell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Jim Mattis

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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Jesse Eisenberg

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So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Rosalind Wiseman

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Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Michel Faber

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

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O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

Apollonius of Tyana

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

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There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Arne Duncan

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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Anton Chekhov

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I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Annie Leibovitz

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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Anthony Fauci

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Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

Seth Lloyd

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