C. Elizabeth Quotes
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.
When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.
I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.
If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.
Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.
But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.
I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.
Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.
