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Literary Birthday – 17 February
Happy Birthday, Ruth Rendell, born 17 February 1930
Seven Quotes
- I really do literally put myself into a character’s shoes.
- I would think that the old-fashioned detective story which is so much a matter of clues and puzzles, is certainly on the way out, if not already gone. Crime novels now are much more novels of character, and novels which look at the world we live in.
- I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
- 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.
- The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
- Writing is, while the process going on, a very private thing for me. I quite like the idea that some people write something and they read or show it to a friend or a companion or somebody they live with, and discuss it. But to me that’s impossible. If I do that, the whole thing falls apart. It’s as if it’s brought into the light of day, and reality destroys it. I never discuss it at all.
- One is either a story-teller or one is not. And if you are a story-teller, and it is possible for you to write, you will start writing stories.
Ruth Rendell, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer who has written more than 60 novels. Rendell has received many awards and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
RIP Ruth Rendell, 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015.
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