D. James
D. James
inspirational children kids
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
art literature works-of-art
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
believe thinking goes-on
For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.
amount contact holmes sherlock tremendous
I did a tremendous amount of research, and I was in contact with one of the Sherlock Holmes museums.
thinking order wish
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
thinking insulting sin
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
believe mean one-day
But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
people too-late shows
Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
book reading pleasure
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
may moments superficial
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
school people childhood
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
may superficial genuine
Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
past discipline dying
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
bit food mixed mixer played threw together
I just mixed some sandpaper together for a bit and then played a food mixer and threw it at someone.