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.

Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

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

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

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

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

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

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

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

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

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living...

Will the reader turn the page?

Will the reader turn the page?

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare;...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare;...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others...

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others...

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process...

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing...

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing...

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect...

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little...