https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:33:50 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/bowen-elizabeth/42611/ https://wist.info/bowen-elizabeth/42611/#respond Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:30:38 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42611 A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.

Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish author
“Truth and Fiction,” BBC Radio (Oct 1956)
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