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. -Catherine Drinker Bowen

 

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.


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Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

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

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

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen