Ruth Rendell Quotes

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

#British Writer

The knives of jealousy are honed on details

#Jealousy

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

#British Writer

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

#British Writer

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

#British Writer

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

#British Writer

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

#British Writer

unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.

#Literature

If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head.

#Illusion

The weather was still what people called glorious. He would rather it had been cold and gray, for this warmth and sunshine brought the neighbors out into their gardens.

#People

I think about what kind of a background he had, what sort of childhood he had, how he grew up, what he does for a living, the way he wants to live,

#Childhood

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

#British Writer