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
technology ears deaf
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
time century ends
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
writing most-powerful written
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
memories rainbow childhood
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
dream book reading
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
agony suffering speech
Speech isn't for agony.
helping-others zest people
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
travel feet mankind
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
travel light facts
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
writing phrases stories
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
dream standards
The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
race people lifetime
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
young process shows
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
coffee men speak
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.