Quote

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

P. D. James

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

P. D. James
Age: 94 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 3
Died: 2014
Died: November 27
Member Of The House Of Lords
Novelist
Politician
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Phyllis Dorothy James
Phyllis Dorothy James
Baroness James of Holland Park
Phyllis James
Baroness Phyllis Dorothy James
Always
Infanticide
Equate
Authors
Badly
Rejection
Take

More quotes by P. D. James

Image
All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
P. D. James
Image
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
P. D. James
Image
the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
P. D. James
Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
Image
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. James
Image
gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
P. D. James
Image
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
P. D. James
Image
The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
P. D. James
Image
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
P. D. James
Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
P. D. James
Image
Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
P. D. James
Image
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
P. D. James
Image
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
P. D. James
Image
There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.
P. D. James
Image
Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.
P. D. James
Image
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James
Image
Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.
P. D. James
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 best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
P. D. James
Image
The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
P. D. James
Image
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P. D. James