Shirley Jackson Quotes
Shirley Jackson Quotes
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.
3378 In the country of the story the writer is king.
2252 Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....
3467 Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.
2344 Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
2133 Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.
3893 No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
2620 Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see.
2703 Shirley Jackson At Amazon