Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

• The great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Art

• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Younger, Generation

• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Passion, Reading, Books

• The fifties – they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Yourself

• I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Alone

• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Books

• Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adversity, Great, Teacher

• Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Topics in Age

Elizabeth Hardwick (8)

Birth:	27th July, 1916
Death:	2nd December, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Novelist, Writer

About

Elizabeth Hardwick was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She was an American literary critic, novelist, and writer. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover, The Simple Truth, and Sleepless Nights. A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, was published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own, Seduction and Betrayal, Bartleby in Manhattan, and Sight-Readings.

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