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....

Those close to [Patricia Highsmith], particularly her family, often commented on how Highsmith's vision....

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was,....

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,....

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

[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....