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Shirley Jackson Quotes

Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 14, 1919
Date of Death:
August 8, 1965
Nationality:
American
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Shirley Jackson

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I delight in what I fear.
Shirley Jackson

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
Shirley Jackson

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
Shirley Jackson

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
Shirley Jackson


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