Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
love relationship crush
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
character directors literature
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
character crafts fiction
Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
inspirational others people
Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
art stopped
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
beginning ending loss small talk women
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
boy cathedral chewing genius hunk memory might rejects small
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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.
knowing plot destination
Plot is the knowing of destination.
revenge justice kind
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ...
travel journey littles
Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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.
dream differences expectations
Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
feelings moments driven
Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.