Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis. — Elizabeth Hardwick Analysis Copy Share Image
The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing. — Elizabeth Hardwick Day and night Copy Share Image
“In art it is not often possible to make direct use of your dreams of tomorrow and your excuses for yesterday.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Art Copy Share Image
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Fiction Copy Share Image
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. — Elizabeth Hardwick Book Copy Share Image
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. — Elizabeth Hardwick Evil 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 Copy Share Image
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick Baby 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 Copy Share Image
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter… — Elizabeth Hardwick Challenges Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Experience Copy Share Image
“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's… — Elizabeth Hardwick Books Copy Share Image
Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in… — Elizabeth Hardwick Creation 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
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
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be… — Elizabeth Hardwick Disappointed Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Antiques Copy Share Image
“I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their… — Elizabeth Hardwick Bachelors Copy Share Image
Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Awkwardness 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
History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
