Bonnie Friedman Quotes

What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Chewing Judging Self Separate Two
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. … That is why people read: to have experiences.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Book People Reading
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Envy Mind Scorpions
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?
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Envy Fall Spring
My heart pounded. I felt flushed with disgust and irritation. Why must I always have such obstacles to my writing?
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Best Sentence Successful Writers
Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?
BONNIE FRIEDMAN

Across Age Control Silent Spring Story
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
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Keep Believing Successful Writing
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.
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Book Portrait Real Sacrifice Sentence Writtem
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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Daily Life Writing
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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Body Fiction Mind

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