Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
art feelings literature
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
writing character mistress
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.
character found
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
educational ideas shadow
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
men two different-faces
A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
girl expression photograph
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
book writing thinking
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.
jealousy loneliness envy
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
morning time spring
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
life positive-attitude diversity
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
fate destiny eagles
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
writing paper littles
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
past haunting sake
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.
writing literature firsts
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.