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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.
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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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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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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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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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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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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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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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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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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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... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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