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. JamesAmbition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
P. D. JamesI knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
P. D. JamesThe tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
P. D. James