P. D. James citations

Phyllis Dorothy James dite, P. D. James, née le 3 août 1920 à Oxford et morte le 27 novembre 2014 dans la même ville, est une écrivaine britannique notoire, autrice de romans policiers. Son premier roman, Cover Her Face , paraît en 1962, son dernier Death Comes to Pemberley en 2011.

Elle obtient le grand prix de littérature policière en 1988 pour son roman A Taste for Death . Elle est anoblie en 1990 par la reine Élisabeth II, qui la fait baronne James of Holland Park. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. août 1920 – 27. novembre 2014
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P. D. James: 26 citations0 J'aime

P. D. James: Citations en anglais

“You're going to have to, Xan. You may have to kill her, too.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”

P. D. James

Paris Review (1995), as cited in The Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011), ed. Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford University Press, p. 250 : ISBN 0199609128
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“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men (1992), Chapter 1.

“I don't think God bargains.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.”

P. D. James

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

Dr. Theodore Faron About Xan.
The Children of Men (1992)

“I didn't love him, but I liked him being in love with me.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“Darling, you can't promise that…but I like to hear you say it.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“Every novelist write what he or she needs to write, a subconscious compulsion to express and explain his unique view of reality.”

P. D. James

Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography Faber & Faber, London 1999.
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography

“Whatever else I am now, I'm never bored.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“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.”

P. D. James

Interview with Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph, 26 Sep 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6227400/PD-James-Queen-of-Detective-Fiction-Interview.html. <br class="br">Other

“We do. The question is, how do you?”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

“We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

Woolvington.
The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't want to kill you.”

P. D. James livre The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

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