Jean Stafford Quotes

#1. He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Jean Stafford

#2. For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Jean Stafford

#3. For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

Jean Stafford

#4. I am growing meaner by the hour.

Jean Stafford

#5. He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up in a small space to think about it. He wanted to grab it and eat it like an apple so that nobody else could have it.

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#6. You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

Jean Stafford

#7. I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.

Jean Stafford

#8. A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

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#9. Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Jean Stafford

#10. I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.

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#11. From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

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#12. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Jean Stafford