Quotes by : Elizabeth Hardwick

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

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting....

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.

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

Biology is destiny only for girls.

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

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