Author: Shirley Jackson

Quotes

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.

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.

- Shirley Jackson

I delight in what I fear.

I delight in what I fear.

- Shirley Jackson

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

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

- Shirley Jackson

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 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.

- Shirley Jackson

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