P.D. James cytaty

P. D. James, właśc. Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park – angielska pisarka, autorka powieści kryminalnych.

Napisała 14 powieści, których bohaterem jest inspektor Adam Dalgliesh. Stworzyła także postać prywatnej detektyw Cordelii Gray. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Sierpień 1920 – 27. Listopad 2014
P.D. James Fotografia
P.D. James: 26 cytatów0 Polubień

P.D. James: Cytaty po angielsku

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

P. D. James książka 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
Other

“If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

P. D. James książka The Children of Men

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

“I don't think God bargains.”

P. D. James książka 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 książka 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 książka 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 książka 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 książka 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 książka 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 książka The Children of Men

Woolvington.
The Children of Men (1992)

“I don't want to kill you.”

P. D. James książka The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

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