Quotes by Bowen, Catherine Drinker

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he >>

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they >>

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who a >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of ex >>

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number o >>

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of wri >>

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.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker