Ruth Rendell Quotes

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

There was before 9-11 and after 9-11. After 9-11, the gloves came off.

I wonder why he shot me?.

This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.