Ruth Rendell Quotes

• Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.

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  Topics in Friendship

• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Books, Reading

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Character, Writing

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Happen

• I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kill, Terrible

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sorry, Try

• The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jealousy, Details

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Different

• 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

  Tags in Widow

Ruth Rendell (9)

Birth:	17th February, 1930
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Ruth Barbara Rendell who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.

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• 1952 - Ralph Merkle
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• 1957 - Julia Morgan
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• 1980 - William Howard Stein
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