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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life. - Elizabeth Bowen
Attribution: Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. Seven Winters, part 2, sect. 4, ch. 2 (1962). From “Truth and Fiction,” a 1956 talk which Bowen gave on a British Broadcasting Company (BBC) Home Service radio program.

Categories: And Memoirist; Born In Ireland, Essayist, Fiction, Story Writer, Truth

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