A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman

A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman

Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and notebooks chart her early work and love life.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/04/a-portrait-of-the-writer-as-a-young-woman

5/15/48: Please try to notice if every artist isn’t ruthless in some way. Even the sweetest of characters have done something, generally because of their creative life, that to the rest of the world is inhuman. Some cases are more obvious, others may be more concealed. I know mine exists, my cruelty. Though where I cannot precisely say, for I try always to purge myself of evil.