Quotes by : Shirley Jackson

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment....

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the....

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have....

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when....

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of....

In the country of the story the writer is king.

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over....

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith"....