Elizabeth Bowen Quotes about Children

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Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Elizabeth Bowen

Children, Growing Up, Book

Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.49, Random House

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Elizabeth Bowen

Dog, Children, Moving

Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.

Elizabeth Bowen

Art, Children, Air

With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

Children, Taken, Talking

The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)