Quotes by : Ruth Rendell

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

People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For....

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....

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

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 ...

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.