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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.

From Ruth Rendell

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

From Ruth Rendell

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

From Ruth Rendell

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

From Ruth Rendell

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

From Ruth Rendell

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

From Ruth Rendell

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

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