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Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

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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Writing
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Surprises
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There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.
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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.
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For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
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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'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).
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My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.
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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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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
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Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
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We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
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I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.
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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
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