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Category: Ruth Rendell

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.

Write, Quarter, Every

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.

Mother, School, Child

You don’t knock television, even if you don’t always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

Work, Television, You

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn’t, it would be awful, a failure.

Me, Always, Which

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 I don’t like their attitude, which, if they weren’t young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

People, Young, Bright

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

mystery, 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.

british, dreaming, mystery, real

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot …

funny, hotcakes, metaphor

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

jealousy, love, obsession, stalkers, stalking

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

authors, insults, writing

People are different in reality from the way you’ve seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they’re less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

human-behaviour, imagination, perception

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.

friendship, inspirational, marriage