Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.