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Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
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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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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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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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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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History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
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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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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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