Quotes by Hardwick, Elizabeth

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, >>

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that >>

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; >>

Quotations about Slang

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. >>

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city a >>

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that >>

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Hardwick, Elizabeth