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 window. When I swatted, a wild ferocious swing, a whole trembling crowd shot from the window like pebbles from a blunderbuss, then settled back. My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. - Bonnie Friedman
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
- Bonnie Friedman
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. - Bonnie Friedman
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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
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…
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
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…
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. - Bonnie Friedman
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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
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 …
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
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…
How we learn is what we learn. - Bonnie Friedman
How we learn is what we learn.
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. - Bonnie Friedman
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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