“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 mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you’ve hurt them, marked them, they’re even more sick and ugly, aren’t they? And they’re afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share
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
