Quotes of Catherine Drinker Bowen - somelinesforyou

“ Chamber music – a conversation between friends. ”

- 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

“ Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Writers seldom choose as friends those selfcentered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Writers seldom choose as friends those selfcentered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Writers seldom choose as friends those selfcentered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ”

- 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 printed in black ink. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- 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 once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- 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 once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. ”

- 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 once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. ”

- 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 printed in black ink. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ 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. ”

- 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 printed in black ink. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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