Best Elizabeth Bowen Sayings
- What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.… Advance
- What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening,… Effect
- Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis… Analysis
- Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… Action
- Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to… Advance
- All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented. All
- Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Brief
- But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it? Funny
- Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. Inspirational
- One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse… Betray
- No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a… Attempt
- Education is not so important as people think. Education
- Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. Character
- Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if… All
- The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a… Accumulated
- When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood… Act
- Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... Death
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a… Absence
- Dogs are a habit, I think. Dog
- Dialogue should show the relationships among people. Among
- On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody… Another Reason
- Certain books come to meet me, as do people. Book
- Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love. All
- To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. Among
- Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. Climax
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