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

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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