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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes: Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
         

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.


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This page presents the quote "Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.". Author of this quote is Elizabeth Bowen. This quote is about writing, happenings, thoughtful, speed, tension, pressure, thinking, action and reaction,.