I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. Ruth Rendell More Quotes by Ruth Rendell More Quotes From Ruth Rendell I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. Ruth Rendell feeltrythinksucceed I don't know what I would do if I didn't write. Ruth Rendell wouldwriteknow Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. Ruth Rendell i-amthinki-canpeople It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. Ruth Rendell thinkmeangrypeople People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. Ruth Rendell needbeingbedpeople My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible. Ruth Rendell manheartfatherdeath My mother had multiple sclerosis. Ruth Rendell hadmultiplemother People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better. Ruth Rendell bettergoodlovepeople I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books. Ruth Rendell reallybookstragicaffected People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. Ruth Rendell meyoufoodpeople I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all. Ruth Rendell knowalwaysi-believebelieve
