The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen. Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. Elizabeth Bowen Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen
