Patricia Highsmith

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

— Patricia Highsmith

#functions #i #imagination #much #people

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#honesty #imagination

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#family #isolation #murder #family

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#crime #humour #inspirational #murder #age

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#ever #films #hang #hitchcock #i

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

— Patricia Highsmith

#feel #get #i #i feel #i feel like

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

— Patricia Highsmith

#boring #find #i #justice #passion

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#because #dream #graham #greene #i

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

#contact #estate #few #hitchcock #i

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#hated #i #into #juries #political