“Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their ...” — Ruth Rendell Quote

“Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.”

“I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.”

“The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.”

“When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.”

“So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.”

“I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.”