read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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 Image
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
