Catherine Drinker Bowen
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Catherine Drinker Bowen, 1958
Posted on January 13, 2003 at 6:21 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Adventures of a Biographer
Posted on May 22, 2002 at 9:13 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Adventures of a Biographer
Posted on May 15, 2002 at 8:51 AM
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