Quotes by : Elizabeth Winder

For years I wondered what was her curious power, her ability to attract all kinds of people to her and....

I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It....

All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons....

That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it....

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance....

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.

You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning.....

Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the....

Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference....