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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

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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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.
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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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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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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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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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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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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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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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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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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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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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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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Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
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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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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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