"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Catherine Drinker Bowen, American Writer

Writing, Healing, Nothing, Right, Word

0

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Exlpore more Writing quotes

"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."

George Stephen, Canadian Businessman

Writing, Day, Draft, First, Months

"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Joy, Creation, Sky

"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."

Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

Writing,

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Heart, Beauty, Expression

"I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority."

Peter Matthiessen, American Writer

Writing, Inferiority, Superiority, Fiction

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

Marcel Duchamp, French Artist

Writing, Order, Taste

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

C. Day Lewis, English Poet

Writing, Order

"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."

Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist

Writing, First, Pain

"Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game."

James Lee Burke, American Author

Writing, Artist, Will

"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Writing, University

Explore more quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen

"Will the reader turn the page?"

Will

"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."

Friendship

"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

Man

"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."

Biography

"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."

Life

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

Critics

"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."

Truth

"Writing, 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."

Living

"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Writing