Quotes by Bowen, Catherine Drinker

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago >>

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 Writers and Writing

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret >>

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. >>

It requires more than mere genius to be an author. >>

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.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker