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Bonnie Friedman
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“Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.”
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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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“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 you want can come only from the work itself.”
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“Our sword in the stone grows straight down through our parents. They are right to regard us with alarm.”
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“What we learn most deeply is usually what we do not know we are learning at all. Years later, if we are lucky, we recognize the shape of what we have learned, its true anatomy.”
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“How we learn is what we learn.”
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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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“Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.”
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“... our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.”
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“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
Bonnie Friedman, U.S. writer
(1958)