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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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.

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...

Will the reader turn the page?

Will the reader turn the page?

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...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew,...

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew,...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than...

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...