Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights… — Hortense Calisher Art Copy Share Image
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath… — Hortense Calisher Emphasis Copy Share Image
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts. — Hortense Calisher Facts Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Bees Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man… — Hortense Calisher Believe Copy Share Image
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. — Hortense Calisher Biology Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Casts Copy Share Image
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. — Hortense Calisher Nuisance Copy Share Image
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. — Hortense Calisher Inspirational Copy Share Image
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. — Hortense Calisher Bangles Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Book Copy Share Image
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. — Hortense Calisher Family Copy Share Image
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. — Hortense Calisher Acting Copy Share Image
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race. — Hortense Calisher Human race Copy Share Image
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity. — Hortense Calisher Critics Copy Share Image
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's… — Hortense Calisher Feet Copy Share Image
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. — Hortense Calisher Childhood Copy Share Image
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to. — Hortense Calisher Community Copy Share Image
