212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say “I want to be a writer. What should I do?” I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I can’t exist without books.

I really do literally put myself into a character’s shoes.

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

I think about death every day – what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

While most of the things you’ve worried about have never happened, it’s a different story with the things you haven’t worried about. They are the ones that happen.