In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary … - Catherine Drinker Bowen

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We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

In 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.

Eye, Giving, Like, Location, Mistake, Uncatalogued

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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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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.

Life, Kindness, Writing, Double, Reality

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

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

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

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