11 ordspråk av Catherine Drinker Bowen

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Catherine Drinker Bowen föddes den 1 januar 1897 och dog den 1 november 1973 - US writer
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

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.

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

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.

Will the reader turn the page?

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.

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

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.

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

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.

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