Famous quotes containing the words james and/or bowen:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)