Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes about Character

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Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Character, Feelings, Causes

Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Character, Gossip, Analysis

"Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction No. 87". Interview with Darryl Pinckney, www.theparisreview.org. 1985.

A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Character, Self, Wish

Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.195, New York Review of Books