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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
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Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane another won't get over the right stile.
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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen
one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
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... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, immortal longings.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story not only to show the characters, but to advance.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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