I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
Ruth RendellThere are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
Ruth Rendellthere must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies.
Ruth Rendell