I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
Elizabeth BowenThe novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
Elizabeth BowenThe importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen