Patricia Highsmith Quotes

Robert Walker As Bruno Was Excellent. He Had Elegance And Humor, And The Proper Fondness For His Mother

If People Have Bought Something Of Mine, They Know By Now That I Will Decline Writing It For The Movies

I Didn't Hang Around Films. I Don't Know If I'd Ever Seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

The Conversation Seemed Just As Boring And Forgettable As Details Of American History Around 1805, For Example.

But There Was Not A Moment When She Did Not See Carol In Her Mind, And All She Saw, She Seemed To See Through Carol. That Evening, The Dark Flat Streets Of New York, The Tomorrow Of Work, The Milk Bottle Dropped And Broken In Her Sink, Became Unimportant. She Flung Herself On Her Bed And Drew A Line With A Pencil On A Piece Of Paper. And Another Line, Carefully, And Another. A World Was Born Around Her, Like A Bright Forest With A Million Shimmering Leaves.

I Don`t Set The Alarm To Get Up. I Get Up When I Feel Like It.

He Liked The Fact That Venice Had No Cars. It Made The City Human. The Streets Were Like Veins, He Thought, And The People Were The Blood, Circulating Everywhere.

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

Dusk Was Falling Quickly. It Was Just After 7 P.m., And The Month Was October.

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.

I Have No Television - I Hate It.

How Easy It Was To Lie When One Had To Lie!