Quotes by Shirley Jackson

• I delight in what I fear.
• 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 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 very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
• Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
• When life gives you lemons, make sure those lemons increased your glucose stockings for following battles.
• Invest in good, wholesome coffee - it's a friend who listens and understands.