Quotes by : Ruth Rendell

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

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

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

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....

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,....