Top 138 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

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.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

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

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 don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

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

I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.