“I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is m...” — Ruth Rendell Quote

“I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.”

“I don't mind being distracted.”

“Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.”

“'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.”

“I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'”

“I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.”