6 Quotes & Sayings By Catherine Drinker Bowen

Catherine Drinker Bowen is a novelist and biographer, and one of the most respected chroniclers of the American Revolution. Her books include The Making of a Quaker: A Life of George Fox (1936), Benjamin Franklin (1938), and Thomas Paine (1940).

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are...
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Writers 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 Bowen
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind...
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. Catherine Drinker Bowen
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It 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. Catherine Drinker Bowen
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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. Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends. Catherine Drinker Bowen