Quotes by : Elizabeth Hardwick

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or....

The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions....

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness.....

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives....

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has....

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth....

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in....