Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
self stimulus chosen
The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
short-life cutting class
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
silence different sound
Silences can be as different as sounds.
stories action ends
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.
suffering survival desert
We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.
writing past wish
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
travel journey littles
Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
people privacy
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
bullying travel sight
Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
people influence beats
People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
trouble should difficulty
one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
pleasure spoilt
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
art hurt memorable
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
life positive-attitude diversity
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.