Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writer
1897-01-01 – 1973-11-01
American biographer and nonfiction writer best known for bestselling historical works on U.S. political and constitutional history. Her books include widely read studies of the Founding era and major constitutional debates. She became one of the most prominent historical narrators for general audiences in mid-20th-century America.
Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen
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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.
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
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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.
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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