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Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Stafford

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Jean Stafford.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

American - Novelist | July 1, 1915 - March 26, 1979

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

I am growing meaner by the hour.

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. — © Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

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

Jean Stafford

Jean Stafford

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