"For your born writer, nothing is so healing……" — Catherine Drinker Bowen
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
—
Catherine Drinker Bowen
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
14 Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen has 14 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
-
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice.…
-
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes,…
-
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…
-
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians…
-
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…
See all 14 quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen »
More Born Quotes
This quote is filed under Born Quotes,
one of 7,034 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
-
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
-
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
-
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
-
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
-
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
-
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
-
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
-
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
See all 7,034 Born Quotes »