Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
The wish to lead out one’s lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one’s self-respect. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. Elizabeth Bowen Read Quote
