Ruth Rendell Quotes

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

  Ruth Rendell

  Thinking, Want, Driven

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jun 23, 2011

  46 Copy quote

• 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

  Dream, Real, May

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from May 15, 2012

  25 Copy quote

• The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

  Ruth Rendell

  Psychology, Human Nature, Trouble

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Writing, People, Letters

  12 Copy quote

• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

• It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

  Ruth Rendell

  Best Love, World Love, Lovers

  20 Copy quote

• To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

  Ruth Rendell

  Character, Cutting, Insult

  12 Copy quote

• The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

  Ruth Rendell

  Jealousy, Knives, Details

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Oct 30, 2011

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Women, Taken, Two

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House

  8 Copy quote

• The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

  Ruth Rendell

  Loss, Disaster, Worst

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, Would Be, Humiliating

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Sep 29, 2011

  11 Copy quote

• Nobody really lives in the present.

  Ruth Rendell

  Live In The Present

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Judgement In Stone”, p.65, Random House

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Lying, Order, Routine

  7 Copy quote

• It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

  Ruth Rendell

  Philosophy, Thinking, Broads

  Ruth Rendell (1993). “Inspector Wexford”

  6 Copy quote

• We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

  Ruth Rendell

  Sex, Crazy, Men

  5 Copy quote

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

  Ruth Rendell

  Sorry, Thinking, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Aug 19, 2011

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Names, Perfect

  9 Copy quote

• Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  Ruth Rendell

  Years, Civilization, Car

  4 Copy quote

• They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.

  Ruth Rendell

  Noise, Annoying

  Ruth Rendell (1993). “Inspector Wexford”

  4 Copy quote

• I can't exist without books.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, I Can

  Ruth Rendell (1993). “The crocodile bird”, Crown Pub

  5 Copy quote

• Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

  Ruth Rendell

  Light, Growing, Invisible

  6 Copy quote

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

  Ruth Rendell

  Character, Shoes, Boots

  4 Copy quote

• We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

  Ruth Rendell

  Enemy, Faces, Forget

  Ruth Rendell (1994). “Talking to Strange Men”, Arrow

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Marriage, Two, Widows

  "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 02, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ruth Rendell

  Worry, Different, Stories

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jul 04, 2011

  5 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

P. D. James

Patricia Highsmith

Agatha Christie

Dorothy L. Sayers

Minette Walters

Sara Paretsky

Mary Higgins Clark

Elizabeth George