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
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. – 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
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
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. – Catherine Drinker Bowen
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. – 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
