Shirley Jackson

“Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....”

“I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.”

“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”

“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

“Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.”

“In the country of the story the writer is king.”