P. D. James

"Oh yes he does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He's supposed to be just. If he wants belief He'd better provide some evidence."

"We do. The question is, how do you?"

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

"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."

"Perhaps His experiment went spectacularly wrong, sir. Perhaps He's just baffled. Seeing the mess, not knowing how to put it right. Perhaps not wanting to put it right. Perhaps He only had enough power…"

"We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life."

"I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery."

"Every novelist write what he or she needs to write, a subconscious compulsion to express and explain his unique view of reality."