Quotes by : Shirley Jackson

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your....

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might....

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot,....

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you....

In the country of the story the writer is king.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's....

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the children,....