When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Ruth Rendell
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Ruth Rendell
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. - Ruth Rendell
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. - Ruth Rendell
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
Nobody really lives in the present. - Ruth Rendell
Nobody really lives in the present.
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs. - Ruth Rendell
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
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
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.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. - Ruth Rendell
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
I can't exist without books. - Ruth Rendell
I can't exist without books.
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with… - Ruth Rendell
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with…
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