Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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