Quotes by 'Elizabeth Bowen'

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...

country literature married

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

war brain literature

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

lying two literature

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

children talking literature

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

literature shapes degrees

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

literature outcomes language

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

thinking literature shows

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

women literature intimacy

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

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.

art feelings literature

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

passion literature minors

We are minor in everything but our passions.

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.

disaster fact incorrect people tv

It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

truth

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.