“read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.” ShouldWritingOrderPoorResultsStyleAppreciateCopiesAvoidedGood WritingLearn To Appreciate Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.” WayHumansIdeasOrderMysteryGuiltHuman LifeDisorderSanityIrrational Author: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, the liking of a pattern.” ThinkingOrderWishPatternsGenreDisorder Author:P. D. James
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.” StoriesOrderMurderDetectivesRestorationDetective Stories Author:P. D. James
