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Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.

Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Will the reader turn the page?

Will the reader turn the page?

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: 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.

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.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes: For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

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