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About Ruth Rendell
English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. She is best known for crime fiction that focuses on suspense, psychology, and the hidden motives behind violent acts. Her work moved between thriller and murder mystery forms, and her books made her a prominent name in English popular fiction.
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- “I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears y…”Ruth Rendell
- “I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.”Ruth Rendell
- “The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.”Ruth Rendell
- “If I've got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I'd rather have a heart attack. I don't think that's the only…”Ruth Rendell
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- “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from expe…”George Bernard Shaw
- “Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passiv…”Will Self
- “The ghost stories were fascinating, made even more so by the personal connection between the living and the l…”James Caskey
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- “You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.”Hector Elizondo
- “People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'An…”Don Lemon
- “I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood wha…”Shane Carruth
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Books by Ruth Rendell
Sight for Sore Eyes, A
1999
Simisola
1995
13 Steps Down
2005
Road Rage (Inspector Wexford)
1998
A dark-adapted eye
1986