Elizabeth Hardwick: Likeness

Elizabeth Hardwick was Novelist, short story writer, literary critic. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Elizabeth Hardwick: 28 quotes0 likes

“The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.”

Elizabeth Hardwick

"Guilt, Character, Possibilities" (p. 227)
American Fictions (1999)

“There's a leveling homogeneity in America today created by television. Each day it passes over the vast land mass, over the states nudging each other like the sovereignties of the Balkans, creating a unifying cloud of aesthetic properties and experience. East and West, North and South are wrapped in a sort of over-soul of images, facts, happenings, celebrities. This debris is as sacred to our current fiction as gossip about the new vicar was to Trollope. And there it is on the page, informing the domestically restless households, father off somewhere, mother chagrined. Sons and daughters writing the books.”

Elizabeth Hardwick

"Locations: An Introduction" (pp. xix-xx)
American Fictions (1999)

“She never liked the constant presence of her husbands or lovers and did not like, she soon found out, to be alone — a dilemma in one shape or another common to most of mankind.”

Elizabeth Hardwick

"Katherine Anne Porter" (p. 302)
American Fictions (1999)