Character Quote by Ruth Rendell

“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

“I don't judge people. I don't think we should/”

— Ruth Rendell

“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

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

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

— Ruth Rendell

“It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.”

— Ruth Rendell

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

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

— Ruth Rendell

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

— Ruth Rendell

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

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

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

— Ruth Rendell