Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Children, Air

• 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

• Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, People, Suffering

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.205, Random House

• children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Regret, Anticipate

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

• When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

• With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Taken, Talking

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

• There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Talking, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

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