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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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...

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...

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...

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...

Will the reader turn the page?

Will the reader turn the page?

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.

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;...

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...

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...

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...

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still...

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for...

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how...

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I...

People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to...

Writing is thinking on paper.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.