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Ruth Rendell

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 17, 1930

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

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'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

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I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

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I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

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I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.

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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

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How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

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I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

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I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

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I'm not much of an eater.

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In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

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I have a soft spot for charities that help children.

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I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

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I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

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I don't mind being distracted.

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I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

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I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.

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It sounds awful and sort of goody two-shoes, but I never eat between meals.

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