212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

In 'The Blood Doctor,' I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.