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Love, which still seemed to me the most important thing in the world, had eluded me; I seemed incapable of sustaining, inspiring or receiving it. This reinforced all my secret feelings of being worthless.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

You have to put writing first. If I was mooning after someone... I wouldn't be focused. I wasted a lot of my life on men, but I think a lot of women novelists have.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts—what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it, and did it teach you anything?

Elizabeth Jane Howard

I don't like being alone, but I'm getting much better at it. When you make a lot of mistakes, you always pay for them. Not at the time, not necessarily all at once, but you always do pay. And I pay by having to spend the rest of my life on my own.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

When you write something which comes off, it's a feeling like no other. It's like being visited by something outside yourself.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Born: March 26, 1923

Died: January 2, 2014 (aged 90)

Bio: Elizabeth Jane Howard was an English novelist. She had previously been an actress and a model.

Known for:

The light years (1990)
The long view (1956)
The beautiful visit (1950)
Marking time (1991)
Casting Off: The Cazalet Chronicle, Volume 4 (1995)

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