Quotes by Writing Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct. Bonnie Baker our-worldselfwriting I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind. Bonnie Baker magicwritingsong 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. Bonnie Friedman successfulwritingbelieve 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. Bonnie Friedman finestgrasswriting Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. Bonnie Friedman hard-workenoughwriting 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? Bonnie Friedman heartwritingmorning Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. Bonnie Friedman keep-believingsuccessfulwriting Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. Bonnie Friedman daily-lifelife-iswriting I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation. Bonnie Jo Campbell writingpeopleneeds I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. Bonnie Jo Campbell specificitywritingthinking I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters. Bonnie Jo Campbell writingcharactermen Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally. Bonnie Jo Campbell mathwritingthinking Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write. Bonnie Jo Campbell couplewritingjobs The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good. Bonnie Jo Campbell truth-iswritingyears I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns. Bonnie Jo Campbell writingpeopleschool I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck. Bonnie Jo Campbell luckifswriting I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America. Bonnie Jo Campbell skillswritingamerica I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write. Bonnie Jo Campbell fightingwritingmorning I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me. Bonnie Jo Campbell my-ownselfwriting The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. Bonnie Jo Campbell lessonshard-workwriting«162163164165166167168169170171172»
