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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.
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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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.
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