People
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Catherine Drinker Bowen describes a particular relief that writers feel. Finding the right word, she suggests, works almost like healing rather than simple craft satisfaction. The comparison treats precise language as something the writer needed, not just something they produced.
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