“ I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. Ruth Rendell
“ We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. Ruth Rendell
“ You make someone into a object of – not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, an… Ruth Rendell
“ I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. Ruth Rendell
“ I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' 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. Ruth Rendell
“ I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. Ruth Rendell
“ Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference… Ruth Rendell
“ I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. Ruth Rendell
