212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes - I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.