Patricia Highsmith Quotes

• For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Justice, Life

• I didn’t hang around films. I don’t know if I’d ever seen Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever

• I don’t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Feel

• I don’t think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that’s true. But he’s married in later books. I’m not saying he’s very strong in the s*x department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Department

• I have no television – I hate it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• I don’t want to know movie directors. I don’t want to be close to them. I don’t want to interfere with their work. I don’t want them to interfere with mine.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Movie

• I have Graham Greene’s telephone number, but I wouldn’t dream of using it. I don’t seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Politics

• I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can’t operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Hope, New York

• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won’t release it for a remake.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Request, Contact

• I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I’m having trouble. I’ve just sacked my second screenwriter.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in New York

• I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Public

• I can’t write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, House

• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Interview

• I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Like

• I prefer to live in the country where it’s quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Country, Movies

  Tags in Live

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accident, Recovery

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decline

• My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Imagination

• Ripley is married. And he’s not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

Patricia Highsmith (23)

Birth:	19th January, 1921
Death:	4th February, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer, most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor.

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