Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Experience

Quotes about: Experience

• No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Real, Character, Years

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

• At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Garden, Games, Childhood

• Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Interesting, Understanding, Experience

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 1, ch. 1

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