Bonnie Friedman Quotes
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.