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)

    The novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    Education is not so important as people think.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)