In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.
Shirley JacksonWe eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
Shirley JacksonThe first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.
Shirley JacksonThere had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
Shirley Jackson