Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, People

• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Drama, Book, Night

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

• the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Reading, Mind

• My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (2010). “Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen”, p.3, Edinburgh University Press

• Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

• The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Book, Reading

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

• without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Blow, Wind

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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