There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.
Elizabeth BowenThough not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
Elizabeth BowenReason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
Elizabeth BowenThe short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen