Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowenwas an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 January 1897
CountryUnited States of America
work pioneers lighthouse
What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
friendship conversation chamber-music
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
want alive biographers
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
men identity forget
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
needs empty
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
writing kind
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
writing reality thinking
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.
healing writing realization
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
apart double waits writer
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.
american-writer dare grown
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.