P.D. James Quotes
P.D. James Quotes
Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
4203All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius.
3983 Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
2020 It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
3958 I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
2729 Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
3343 People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
3045 There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.
1000 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.
1843 I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
2098 What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.
1720 Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.
4484 If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
1368 Every island to a child is a treasure island.
1363 Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.
4766 Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
4925 Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
3127 The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.
1274 You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.
1144 What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men.
4333 Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
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