Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.
Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.