Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.[1] (wikipedia)
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.
I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.
I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.
It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.
I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
Whereas most of us would think that's a very good thing, he doesn't. He thinks this is sacrilege, this is desecration.
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.