Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you’re Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I’m a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It’s a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
If I’ve got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I’d rather have a heart attack. I don’t think that’s the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don’t much care how they get it – to attract attention to themselves. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I – I love being told by people that they enjoy my books, and I think that’s really very nice. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher – she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I started by writing short stories, but they weren’t very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you down, and so I didn’t lose heart – I kept on writing and wrote a lot of books, one or two of which I finished, and others I didn’t. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I’m not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it’s quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
