Jean Stafford Quotes

"From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Time, Intellect, Rest)

"You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Hope, Nothing, Now, Want, Will)

"I am growing meaner by the hour."
- Jean Stafford

"For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Home)

"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Silence)

"For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Life, Knowledge, Being, Nothing, Writer)

"Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality."
- Jean Stafford
(Related: Morality, Irony)