Bonnie Friedman Quotes
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How we learn is what we learn.
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Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
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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 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?
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.