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Ruth Rendell
British
Writer
About the author
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Death
#Day
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Character
I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Money
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Jealousy
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Want
#Burden
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.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
Ruth Rendell,
British
Writer
#Succeed