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
childhood hang happy instead neck
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
uncles smart believe
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
critics posterity
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
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 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.
science alarms guilty
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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.