Patricia Highsmith
Birthday: 19 January 1921, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Birth Name: Mary Patricia Plangman
Patricia Highsmith was born on January 19, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA as Mary Patricia Plangman. She was a writer, known for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Carol (2015) and Strangers on a Train ( ...Show More
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on Show more
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days? Franz Kafka! Hide
[on film versions of her novels]: Really, I don't mind too much if they take liberties with my plots Show more
[on film versions of her novels]: Really, I don't mind too much if they take liberties with my plots, because they're trying to do something quite different from a book, and I think they have a right to change the story as much as they wish. I couldn't write a book with the idea in my mind that it was going to be a film. That would be like thinking of a statue when you're painting a picture. Hide
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