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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. - Ruth Rendell
The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
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.
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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