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
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.
english-novelist great seems time
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
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.
mind our-lives
it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
loss thinking people
People have never lost what they think they have.
people insincerity behinds
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
gratitude grateful giver
Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
long long-words
Never is a long word.
family faces members
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ...
family beautiful mean
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
family world emotion
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.
matter way exaggeration
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
doers advantage should
Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.
death people feelings
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!