James Bowen

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    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with “characters,” or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons “in history.” History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)