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.
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 … - Catherine Drinker Bowen
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 …
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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.
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?
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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.
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.
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