Dystopian Author Quotes

P. D. James It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

P. D. James I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, […]

P. D. James I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such […]

P. D. James A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

P. D. James What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.

P. D. James If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

P. D. James We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

P. D. James [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that […]

P. D. James Creativity doesn’t flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.