Catherine Drinker Bowen

“The story of a man's life is told not in the order of his years... but in the order of his loyalties.”

“Chamber music - a conversation between friends.”

“For a writer, the emotions are tools of his trade.”

“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.”

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”

“The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use.”

“We are what our fathers have made us.”

“Scholarship is a calling, not a career.”

“A biography is born of a great sympathy, or a great antipathy.”

“All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.”

“Passion is the sine qua non of the writing of a book.”

“To be a biographer is a great responsibility.”