212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

we dislike those we've injured.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

I have a soft spot for charities that help children.