While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

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• Ruth Rendell:

  The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

• Ruth Rendell:

  I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

• Ruth Rendell:

  I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

• Ruth Rendell:

  I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of m

• Ruth Rendell:

  I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humil

• Ruth Rendell:

  I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

• Ruth Rendell:

  I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

• Ruth Rendell:

  I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is so

• Ruth Rendell:

  Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to kno

• Ruth Rendell:

  It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish.