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. (Catherine Drinker Bowen)

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.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Related topics

biography black ink red should facts points

Related quotes

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader-not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. View quote
Roald Dahl
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. View quote
David Brin
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick