Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing, I think,...

Writing, I think,...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything...

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Chamber music --...

Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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For your born...

For your born...

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

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Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...

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Great artists treasure...

Great artists treasure...

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

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Will the reader...

Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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Many a man...

Many a man...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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I speak truth,...

I speak truth,...

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

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In writing biography,...

In writing biography,...

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red...

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There is a...

There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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