Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
party intelligent doe
somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.
character meetings
Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.
stories short-story experiments
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?
memories powerful half
I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.
states subjects susceptibility
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.
silence stranger taxi
Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
memories cups
memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
memories unique identity
Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.
people influence beats
People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
passion vanity depth
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.
silence different sound
Silences can be as different as sounds.
short-life cutting class
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
somewhere-else now-and-then should
What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.
revenge justice kind
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ...