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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
Written
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Whatever
Use
Write
Keep
Writing
Way
Wants

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