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Ruth Rendell

I often think what it was lik...

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

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Ruth Rendell

I don't have any dark desires...

I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

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Ruth Rendell

Violence is very much with us...

Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.

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Ruth Rendell

Both my parents had strokes. ...

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

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Ruth Rendell

I went into a church and simp...

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

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Ruth Rendell

If I've got to have a stroke ...

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

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Ruth Rendell

I never make notes; just a fe...

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

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Ruth Rendell

I don't know that I am fascin...

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

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Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who ...

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

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Ruth Rendell

I don't think the Barbara Vin...

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

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Ruth Rendell

I can't sum up my books. They...

I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.

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Ruth Rendell

Old women especially are invi...

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.

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Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and ...

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

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Ruth Rendell

It's absolutely essential to ...

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

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Ruth Rendell

Suspense is my thing. I think...

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

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Ruth Rendell

As soon as I know it's about ...

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

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Ruth Rendell

I just want to tell a good st...

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

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Ruth Rendell

Where blackmail is involved, ...

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

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Ruth Rendell

The worst has happened ... it...

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

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Ruth Rendell

I get a lot of letters from p...

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 writing to me and to get on with it.

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