Quotes by : Ruth Rendell

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

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late....

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.

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

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

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

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

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.