Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P. D. James Copy Share
Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic? — P. D. James Copy Share
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well… — P. D. James Copy Share
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out,… — P. D. James Copy Share
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share
If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk. — P. D. James Copy Share
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the… — P. D. James Copy Share
In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age… — P. D. James Copy Share
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P. D. James Copy Share
First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. — P. D. James Copy Share
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most… — P. D. James Copy Share
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P. D. James Copy Share
