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It appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Born:
June 7, 1899
Died:
February 22, 1973
(aged 73)
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Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
Known for:
The Death of the Heart (1938)
The Heat of the Day (1948)
The Last September (1929)
The House in Paris (1926)
Eva Trout (1968)
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