I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do. Ruth Rendell More Quotes by Ruth Rendell More Quotes From Ruth Rendell I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. Ruth Rendell drivenwantthinking I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it. Ruth Rendell letterswritingpeople The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. Ruth Rendell psychologyhuman-naturetrouble To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs. Ruth Rendell insultcuttingcharacter Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing. Ruth Rendell realnamesperfect We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. Ruth Rendell realdreammay It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world. Ruth Rendell world-lovebest-lovelovers I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. Ruth Rendell widowsmarriagetwo Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. Ruth Rendell invisiblegrowinglight Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car. Ruth Rendell carcivilizationyears Nobody really lives in the present. Ruth Rendell live-in-the-present there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies. Ruth Rendell routineorderlying There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety. Ruth Rendell womentakentwo the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon. Ruth Rendell climateenglandweather They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself. Ruth Rendell annoyingnoise Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell readinglife-isbook The knives of jealousy are honed on details. Ruth Rendell knivesdetailsjealousy I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. Ruth Rendell humiliatingwould-bethinking The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating. Ruth Rendell disasterworstloss When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions. Ruth Rendell secretheartchildren
