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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
Lurch
Writers
News
Takes
Forever
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Everything
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Flail

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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.
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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 can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
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The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.
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What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
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You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)
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At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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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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You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
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I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
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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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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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