P. D. James
P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 August 1920
morning believe political
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!
rejection infanticide
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
war men may
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.
wall fall sat
When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?
regret writing men
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
confusing identity senses
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
morning years two
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.
writing nurse publishers
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
nothing-but-the-truth oath swear
you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.
suicide actors mysterious
Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
funny-friendship war forgiving
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
people secret secret-life
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
pain get-well mind
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
children parenting happy-kid
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.