P. D. James Thinking Quotations

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?

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

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.