Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

    Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    Raids are slightly constipating.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    Solitary and farouche people don’t have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)