Quotes by Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

Writing

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Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Growing

Invisible

Light

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I can’t exist without books.

Book

I Can

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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.

Letters

People

Writing

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

Boots

Character

Shoes

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

Humiliating

Thinking

Would Be

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

Driven

Thinking

Want

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

Sorry

Thinking

Trying

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I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Marriage

Two

Widows

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It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

Best Love

Lovers

World Love

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Cutting

Details

Different

Disaster

Dislike

Dream

Driven

Enemy

England

Faces

Forget

Growing

Heart

Human Nature

Humiliating

I Can

Injured

Insult

Interesting

Invisible

Jealousy

Knives

Letters

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Listening

Live In The Present

London

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Lying

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May

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Quotes by Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I can’t exist without books.

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

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

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

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

I’ve had two proposals since I’ve been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

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