Elizabeth Bowen Quote

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.


Pictures and Conversations (1975)


Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to...

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to...

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to...

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to...