Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
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.
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.
giant hear impossible inside lunatic sort utter
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality
art stopped
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.