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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
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My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
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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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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness
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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
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