without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.
Elizabeth BowenI pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
Elizabeth BowenThat is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth BowenPeople in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
Elizabeth BowenI am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
Elizabeth Bowen