Ruth Rendell Quotes

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Good wits will jump.

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

Liars need to have good memories.

Short term memory is not good.

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I have a photographic memory.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.