“I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their… — Elizabeth Hardwick Life Copy Share Image
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns… — Elizabeth Hardwick Coins Copy Share Image
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures… — Elizabeth Hardwick Failure Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick F-scott-fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis. — Elizabeth Hardwick Analysis Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Cause and effect Copy Share Image
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Body Copy Share Image
“All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Able Copy Share Image
“I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about… — Elizabeth Hardwick Books Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Activity Copy Share Image
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief… — Elizabeth Hardwick Afternoon Copy Share Image
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Adults Copy Share Image
