Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
Elizabeth BowenThe innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Elizabeth BowenDialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
Elizabeth Bowen