Quotes by Jean Stafford

About Jean Stafford:

Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
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To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whisky bottle. To ming...

Jean Stafford

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

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

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

I am growing meaner by the hour.

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

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

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

Jean Stafford

Author Bio

  • NameJean Stafford
  • DescriptionAmerican short story writer and novelist
  • BornJuly 1, 1915
  • DiedMarch 26, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Short Story Writer
  • WorksThe Mountain Lion; The Collected Stories Of Jean Stafford
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; O. Henry Award