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My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.


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ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you.
ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless.
ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what...
ELIZABETH HELLER We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti...
ELIZABETH DREW Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR