Top 138 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

About Ruth Rendell

These are some quotes by British author Ruth Rendell Writer, who lived between February 17, 1930 and May 2, 2015.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

Ruth Rendell

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Ruth Rendell

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

Ruth Rendell

I never write about a place I don't know.

I never write about a place I don't know.

Ruth Rendell

I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.

I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.

Ruth Rendell

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

Ruth Rendell

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

Ruth Rendell

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Ruth Rendell

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.

Ruth Rendell

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