We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we …

- Bonnie Friedman

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 y…

- Bonnie Friedman

I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by the kitchen wind…

- Bonnie Friedman

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

- Bonnie Friedman

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

- Bonnie Friedman

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to e…

- Bonnie Friedman

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

- Bonnie Friedman

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

- Bonnie Friedman

How we learn is what we learn.

- Bonnie Friedman