Elizabeth Bowen Quote

I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think... if I thought more I might write less.

The Mulberry Tree: Writings of Elizabeth Bowen (1986)