Time to Be in Earnest Quotes

“The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

“It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

“There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

“When I am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But it is only when these imaginings are written down, passing it seems almost physically from my brain down the arm to my moving hand that they begin to live and move and have their being and assume a different kind of truth.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

“creativity is the successful resolution of internal conflict,”
― P.D. James, Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography

“Woolton”
― P.D. James, Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography

“Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography