Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.