Cities Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

— Elizabeth Hardwick