A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
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… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
