Hortense Calisher Quote

To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards. Garrulity. Lack of shape, or proportion. Or even of judgment.


The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 100, Issue 105, Winter 1987


To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards....

To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards....

To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards....

To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards....