Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives. Ruth Rendell commitcrimedesperate Change image and share on social
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught. Ruth Rendell awfulbusinessdeal share on social
I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next. Ruth Rendell importantkindmake Change image and share on social
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. Ruth Rendell carepaypeerage Change image and share on social
I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. Ruth Rendell bathroombicyclecat share on social
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. Ruth Rendell bookcomplicatedetail Change image and share on social
I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them. Ruth Rendell feelhomosexualrelation Change image and share on social
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. Ruth Rendell agreemadmark Change image and share on social
I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. Ruth Rendell attempthopelessilliterate Change image and share on social
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. Ruth Rendell agebendexercise Change image and share on social
