Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Hardie Jacksonwas an American author. She was a popular writer in her time, and her work has received increased attention from literary critics in recent years. She influenced Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 December 1916
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
hands two luck
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
moon hands hair
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
children savages disrespectful
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
summer morning taken
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
summer spring fall
We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
fun thinking looks
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
believe detectives
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
summer winter air
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
children school assumption
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....
scary use situation
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
delight
I delight in what I fear.
book home sky
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.
dream children husband
The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.