Quotes by : Shirley Jackson

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation....

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns.....

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching....

Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk,....

The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I lay....

He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with....

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No,....

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps....

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best....