Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.” — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
