Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Bonnie FriedmanThe 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.
Bonnie FriedmanTo gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.
Bonnie Friedman