Ruth Rendell Awful Quotations

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.