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Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
Page 1 of 1Catherine Drinker Bowen
January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer
|  If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. Topics: Art | | For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. | | Will the reader turn the page? | | 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 in black ink. | | 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 in that mirror which waits always before or behind. | | I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. | | There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. | | 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 when it is handed to them. | | Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. |
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