Hortense Calisher Quotes

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.