Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
Bonnie FriedmanEnvy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
Bonnie FriedmanThe only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.
Bonnie FriedmanWriting teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
Bonnie Friedman