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Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual Picture Quote #1

Will the reader turn the page? Picture Quote #1

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead Picture Quote #1

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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions Picture Quote #1

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive Picture Quote #1

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living Picture Quote #1

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness Picture Quote #1

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness Picture Quote #1

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours Picture Quote #1

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In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Will the reader turn the page? (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) What the writer needs is an empty day ahead (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes) 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 Quotes) For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word (Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes)