It’s absolutely essential to my life. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t write. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I don’t find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I don’t feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life – which is my life – writing detective stories. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I don’t want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn’t want to marry a bad novelist. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don’t run out of new ones for my characters. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
