I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

38 No. 2 (1990)
Roy F. After spending some years without a permanent home Bowen finally settled in 'Carbery' Church Hill Hythe in 1965.

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer.