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I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.

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

I'm careful about keeping myself fit and thin, or as thin as I can manage.

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

Ruth Rendell