Quotes by : Ruth Rendell

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

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she....

I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or....

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

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

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

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the....

You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness,....

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if....