Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett Famous Quotes & Sayings
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At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.