Patricia Highsmith Quotes


21 Patricia Highsmith quotes:



"Perhaps God and the Devil danced hand in hand around every single electron."
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"That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment."
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"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."
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"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."
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"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
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"If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies."
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"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."
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"I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches."
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"I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian."
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"I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident."
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"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."
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"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."
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"I have no television - I hate it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it."
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"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."
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"I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman."
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"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."
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"I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial."
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