212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

I think what would I do next if, as in his case, he goes to look at the place where a serial killer lived and indeed buried his victims and instead of finding this very squalid and sinister street he finds it's all gone and the whole place has been turned into a very pretty little enclave of small, pretty houses and gardens and trees and flowers and cobbled streets.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

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,

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.