Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it...

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen ha...

In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself with...

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessn...

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a ...

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or s...

In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth...

Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans i...

The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange appariti...

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives...

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their...

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it g...