Writer Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

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

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“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

Will the reader turn the page?

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

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

— 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…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

— 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…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen