Quotes by : Shirley Jackson

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....

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

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

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

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying;....

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little....

She wants her cup of stars.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?....