I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write … - P. D. James

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P. D. James

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

Appreicate, Know, Men, Regret, True, Writing

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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.

Choose, Create, Disorder, Order, Thinking, Wish

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. . . . the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

Looks, Memories, Passage, Past, Prose, Rediscovers

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

English, Fall, Life, Memories, Memory, Occur

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Needs, Sell, Think, Thinking, Write, Writing

I 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.

Beneath, Facts, Skin, Skins, Skull, Skulls