Patricia Highsmith Quotes

American - Novelist | January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Patricia Highsmith

CarKnowCar AccidentOnlyBeenHad

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

Patricia Highsmith

WomanSomeoneHouseCleaningWrite

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

Patricia Highsmith

GoodMenWifeSayingStrongThink

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia Highsmith

ImaginationPeopleSpeakBetterMuch

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Patricia Highsmith

PassionJusticeFindBoringQuite

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Patricia Highsmith

LifeNatureJusticeDoneCaresEver

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Patricia Highsmith

ThinkInterviewsMakingI Think

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Patricia Highsmith

LiveQuietCountryMoviesWhere

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Patricia Highsmith

WorkDayWeekAimDaysFour

I have no television - I hate it.

Patricia Highsmith

HateTelevision

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

Patricia Highsmith

FeelUpI Feel LikeGetLikeI Feel

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.

Patricia Highsmith

MeSaidYearsContactRightsEstate

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