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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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
Elisabeth Bowen
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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
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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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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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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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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... 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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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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the process of reading is reciprocal the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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