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Certain books come to meet me, as do people.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
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Dublin city
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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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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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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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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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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
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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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[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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