I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.

- Shirley Jackson

I delight in what I fear.

- Shirley Jackson

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cann…

- Shirley Jackson

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

- Shirley Jackson

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

- Shirley Jackson

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

- Shirley Jackson

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and w…

- Shirley Jackson

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing…

- Shirley Jackson

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by t…

- Shirley Jackson