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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Things
Days
Isolation
Taken
Gold
Turns
Spend
Making
Pay
Away
Listening
Home
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Overheard
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Turn
Storing
Trying
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Observing

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