Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBEwas an English novelist, publishedas I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 June 1884
cowardice danger knows
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
selfishness unselfish persons
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
expression interesting support
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
loss drunk beats
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
mind our-lives
it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
concern self-importance
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
long people youth
To young people the future is still long.
loss thinking people
People have never lost what they think they have.
havens
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
jars jam certain
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
feelings doe leopards
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
long long-words
Never is a long word.
sarcastic hanging-on pushing
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.