Quotes from Ruth Rendell

I'm not much of an eater.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.