212 Quotes by Ruth Rendell

I never write about a place I don't know.

How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.

If I do, the whole thing falls apart. It fails. The illusion is in my head.

I - I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that's really very nice.

I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.