Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

“Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.”
—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)

“[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)