Bowen

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    I suspect victims; they win in the long run.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    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 subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured—captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    ... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)