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I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
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Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
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I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
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I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.
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Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
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I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.
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No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.
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If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
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I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
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Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.
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Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
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