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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

From Ruth Rendell

I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.

From Ruth Rendell

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

From Ruth Rendell

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

From Ruth Rendell

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

From Ruth Rendell

I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

From Ruth Rendell

I don't exorcise anything with my writing. I'm sure people do, but I don't.

From Ruth Rendell

I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn't lose heart - I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn't.

From Ruth Rendell

Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.

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