I didn’t do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I’ve never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I’ve always wanted to write. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
In ‘The Blood Doctor,’ I wrote about the history of haemophilia and the devastating effects of the disease at a time when there was no remedy. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
The old detective story that’s got a really complicated motive doesn’t apply to mine. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life – I’d be lost without it. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Ford Maddox Ford’s ‘The Good Soldier’ is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It’s possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I’m going to write. It’s much more satisfying than sitting in a chair. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
