Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker BowenWriting, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker BowenWriters seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker BowenWriting is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
Catherine Drinker BowenIn early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.
Catherine Drinker BowenIt is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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