Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#writing #change

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#writing #life

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#fresh #interpret #life #purpose #reproduce

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

#black #fact #facts #fiction #fictional

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

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#forgets #himself #known #man #many

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#come #healing #nothing #realization #right

Will the reader turn the page? ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#reader #turn #will

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

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

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

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

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

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#arrogance #british #effectual #makes #marvelous