The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. 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 conflicti-canfeels Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. Elizabeth Bowen foundcharacter one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over. Elizabeth Bowen difficultytroubleshould The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. Elizabeth Bowen stimuluschosenself What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else. Elizabeth Bowen now-and-thenshouldsomewhere-else Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it. Elizabeth Bowen spoiltpleasure I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. Elizabeth Bowen literatureshowsthinking Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen outcomeslanguageliterature 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 turnssaidwriting Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk. Elizabeth Bowen spontaneityrealwriting 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 crooksorderpeople Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen intimacywomenliterature 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 takentalkingchildren 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 writingbookthinking 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 writingspringgiving Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy. Elizabeth Bowen journeylittlestravel ...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 voiddangerouspower Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. Elizabeth Bowen climaxsilencespeak Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen uniquepeopleideas Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. Elizabeth Bowen clothesbattlewish
