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You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write 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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Whatever
Use
Write
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
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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.)
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I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
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I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.
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Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It’s over you’re wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud.
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Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
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It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
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All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
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