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.
agony suffering genius
Agony without genius was gaucherie.
science alarms guilty
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
coffee men speak
I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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.
writing most-powerful written
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
wind bees sound
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
dream book reading
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
helping-others zest people
When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.
balance body compromise
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
clerks bureaucracy
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
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.