Elizabeth Bowen Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973
Birthday: June 7
Death: February 22
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.
topic: Art, Children, Air, Iridescent, Soap Bubbles, Mature Love
