212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently.

She didn't really know London, only lived in it.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.

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

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.