Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

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• For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
• If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
• Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
• Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at…
• 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;…
• Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
• Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
• 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 soloism--we…
• Will the reader turn the page?

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