I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
From Ruth Rendell
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
It's absolutely essential to my life. 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.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.
Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.
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