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Elizabeth Bowen

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

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"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
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"Education is not so important as people think."
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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."
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