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The most original novelist now writing in English.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
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England
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
Ivy Compton-Burnett
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
