People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.
From Ruth Rendell
I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.
I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.
Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.
I always write about what interests me.
'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
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