212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

The weather was still what people called glorious. He would rather it had been cold and gray, for this warmth and sunshine brought the neighbors out into their gardens.