Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Jane Stanton Hitchcock is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. She has written several plays but is known mostly for her mystery novels Trick of the Eye, The Witches' HammerSocial Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff, which was the winner of the 2019 Hammett Prize. Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.
I may not remember, but I never forget.
We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.
Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. — © Jane Stanton Hitchcock
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.
It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.
One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.
Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.
The key to life is imagination.
dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.
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