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
imagination facts sometimes
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
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 ...
asked boring defect easy endearing faults forgive good happens number qualities single
Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, "how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
large nervous others paying rid state sums
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.
people support obscure
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
beauty physical-beauty true-nature
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
bags superstitions plot
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
writing long pages
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.
religious void belief
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.
giving guarantees might
Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.
loyalty people matter
That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.
loss night tragedy
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.
civilization america secret
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
writing thinking pages
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.