Quotes by : Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

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

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

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

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

In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without....

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

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their....

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

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives....