Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Catherine Drinker Bowen — American Writer born on January 01, 1897, died on November 01, 1973

Catherine Drinker Bowen was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958... (wikipedia)

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

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.

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.

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.

Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

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