We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf … - Bonnie Friedman

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Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

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 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?

Deaf, Envy, Fall, Spring, Time, Worried

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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.

Believe, Believing, Ones, Successful, Writing

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.

Finest, Grass, Like, Part, Unbanishable, Writing

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

Enough, Hard Work, Teach, Work, 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. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.

Appear, Book, Finite, Portrait, Real, Sacrifice

How we learn is what we learn.

Learn, Learning