"Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found."

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Elizabeth Bowen

#Character Quotes #Found Quotes

“You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.”
“Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.”
“I thought 'How can I stop playing or give myself an excuse to stop playing? So I snapped my cue on Friday. It was quite fun doing it. It's gone.”
“African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.”
“Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.”
“I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.”
“I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.”
“We can invent only with memory.”

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