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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.
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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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.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
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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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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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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.
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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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