Shirley Jackson Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.127, Penguin

• A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Sight

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

• 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.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Home, Sky

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

• The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Writing, Parent

• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

• In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

  Shirley Jackson

  Beautiful, Children, Husband

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