Quotes about Jean Stafford

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

#Jean Stafford

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

#Jean Stafford

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my...

#Jean Stafford

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

#Jean Stafford

I am growing meaner by the hour.

#Jean Stafford

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is...

#Jean Stafford

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

#Jean Stafford

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for...

#Jean Stafford