Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzardis an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Her 1970 novel, The Bay of Noon, was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010 and her 2003 novel The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1931
CountryAustralia
lying wish please
Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.
hotel-lobby waiting foyers
Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about, no looking lost and unwanted or even disreputable, as there is in hotel lobbies or the foyers of restaurants. One just sits and enjoys the scene, and waits.
fear law happens
What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
love thinking wish
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
confusion tragedy lasts
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
bye imagination spite
in thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality ...
commitment numbers forgiving
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
balance fairness life-balance
There is balance in life, but not fairness.
pleasure has-beens
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
writing needs nervous
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.