Famous quotes containing the words james and/or bowen:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)