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Plot is the knowing of destination.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
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Short Story Writer
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Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Knowing
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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
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At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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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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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
Elizabeth Bowen
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Elizabeth Bowen
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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Dogs are a habit, I think.
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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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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.
Elizabeth Bowen
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.
Elizabeth Bowen
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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