Ruth Rendell - People Quotes

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I do empathise with people who are driven by dreadful impulses. I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

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These days I'm quite content, you know, with everything. I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

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Nobody in their senses is going to call me a first-class writer. I don't mind because I do the very best that I can and thousands, millions of people enjoy my books.

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Stanley never answered a doorbell naturally and innocently as other people do. He always debated whether it was wise to answer it at all.

Ruth Rendell

It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.

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