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"Catherine Drinker Bowen" was an United States/American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Catherine Drinker Bowen on Wikipedia.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.
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.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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.
Will the reader turn the page?
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.
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