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Ruth Rendell

British

February 17, 1930

Writer

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Reading taught me how to write.

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I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

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Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

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I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.

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I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

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I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

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It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.

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I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

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People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

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We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

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I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

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I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

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I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

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I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.

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