Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen

About Catherine Drinker Bowen:

Catherine Drinker Bowen was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958.
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

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

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Will the reader turn the page?

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 that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameCatherine Drinker Bowen
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 1, 1897
  • DiedNovember 1, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsNational Book Award