“I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think i…” — Ruth Rendell

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that!