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.
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by? - Catherine Drinker Bowen
What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist… - Catherine Drinker Bowen
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist…
Chamber music - a conversation between friends. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. … - Catherine Drinker Bowen
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. …
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