Quotes by Ruth Rendell

About Ruth Rendell:

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Ruth Rendell

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

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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’r...

Ruth Rendell

Goodness, Mr. Cellini, I've not time to answer all these questions. I've got to get on.' With what? She seldom did anything but read, as far as he knew. She must have read thousands of books, she was always at it.

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People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

Ruth Rendell

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 ones that happen.

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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

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To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

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Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

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She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

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I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

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Author Bio

  • NameRuth Rendell
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • AliasesRuth Grasemann; Barbara Vine; Baroness Rendell of Babergh
  • BornFebruary 17, 1930
  • DiedMay 2, 2015
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Politician; Novelist
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Riverton International Honour Prize; Edgar Award