If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing. Elizabeth Bowen conflict i-can feels Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. Elizabeth Bowen found character one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over. Elizabeth Bowen difficulty trouble should The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. Elizabeth Bowen stimulus chosen self What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else. Elizabeth Bowen now-and-then should somewhere-else Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it. Elizabeth Bowen spoilt pleasure I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. Elizabeth Bowen literature shows thinking Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen outcomes language literature What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect. Elizabeth Bowen turns said writing Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk. Elizabeth Bowen spontaneity real writing But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing. Elizabeth Bowen crooks order people Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen intimacy women literature With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. Elizabeth Bowen taken talking children 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. Elizabeth Bowen writing book thinking 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. Elizabeth Bowen writing spring giving Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy. Elizabeth Bowen journey littles travel ...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed. Elizabeth Bowen void dangerous power Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. Elizabeth Bowen climax silence speak Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen unique people ideas Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. Elizabeth Bowen clothes battle wish
