Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable,… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
“Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.” — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
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… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share
![“The 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.” quote by Bonnie Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b3/bonnie-friedman-26515_altars_the-only-way-the-book-can-be-written-is_2960677.jpg)
