Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

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

  ― Catherine Drinker Bowen
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• 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.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-contained
• characters
• fictional
• mistakes
• shouldn
• printed

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