Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then I work out for 35 or 40 minutes – I have a very large bathroom with an elliptical cross-trainer and a bicycle. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don’t think it’s good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets… because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I don’t have any dark desires. And I think most people don’t. A few have dark desires and don’t sublimate them. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
In judging other people’s work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I don’t like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
