Patricia Highsmith American Novelist Quotations

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

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.

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.