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.
Category: Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 in Haverford, PA – November 1, 1973 in Haverford) was an American writer best known for her biographies.
Chamber music — a conversation between friends.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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.
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
Will the reader turn the page?
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.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red ink, the fact parts in black ink.