Catherine Drinker Bowen
» Biography » “In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn’t be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.”
» Scholars and Scholarship » “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.”
» Self-knowledge » “Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.”
» Writers and Writing » “For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
» Writers and Writing » “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.”
