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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh , (1930 – 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell’s best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the main character of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels, that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
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“My favourite book – ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times – is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch.”
"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."
"I never make notes; just a few small details when I’m writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won’t plan it. I’ll speak the narrative in my head for a while."
"The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt."
"People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I’ve got my cats for that!"
"I don’t do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing."
"I don’t think it’s good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it."
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“My favourite book – ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times – is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch.”
"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."
"I never make notes; just a few small details when I’m writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won’t plan it. I’ll speak the narrative in my head for a while."
"The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt."
"People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I’ve got my cats for that!"
"I don’t do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing."
"I don’t think it’s good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it."