The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.
Elizabeth Bowenin my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
Elizabeth BowenStyle is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
Elizabeth Bowen