Ruth Rendell Quotes
- I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop…
- The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
- Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
- To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
- I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
- I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
- I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
- I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
- To be a classic, a novel should be original.
- Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.
- London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.
- I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
- Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
- While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the…
- It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.