Chamber music — a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Life
- 1897-1973
- Occupations
- violinist, novelist, biographer
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Will the reader turn the page?
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