80 Quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Canadians, do not vomit on me!

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs.