Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.
Elizabeth BowenMeeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth BowenBut complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.
Elizabeth BowenThe 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