Quotes by : Andrew Wilson

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970,....

If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over....

The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as....

Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important....

After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist,....

As the new year began, [Patricia Highsmith] felt completely paralysed, incapable of reading or picking....

People who fell in love at first sight, rushed home to their parents to tell them the good news and subsequently....

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a....

[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally....

[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much....