12 Total Quotes
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.
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.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
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 try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.
If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head.
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.
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,