Hortense Calisher
Hortense Calisher
Hortense Calisherwas an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1911
novel
The novel is rescued life.
wind bees sound
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
art fighting church
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
balance body compromise
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
clerks bureaucracy
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
critics posterity
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
family lines intimacy
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
prayer meditation spurs
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
science alarms guilty
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
agony suffering genius
Agony without genius was gaucherie.
writing ideas acting
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
memories wreaths emphasis
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.