"There is a marvelous turn and trick to……" — Catherine Drinker Bowen
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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14 Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in…
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice.…
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes,…
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
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It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by…
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In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians…
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But…
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