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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
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
Elisabeth Bowen
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... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.
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Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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Education is not so important as people think.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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