Ruth Rendell Life Quotations

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

I think I must be the only grandmother in the world who was given an iPod by her grandsons. It has changed my life - I'd be lost without it.

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.

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.