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Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Hope
Everything
Good
Flail
Lurch
Writers
News
Takes
Forever

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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
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It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.
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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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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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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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That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
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Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
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