Elizabeth Bowen: Doing

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“Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.”

Elizabeth Bowen

“And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The House in Paris

The House in Paris (1935)

“It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.”

Elizabeth Bowen

Source: A Time in Rome (1960), Ch. IV, p. 132