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Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Life
Novels
Mostly
Novel
Happened
Happens
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When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
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I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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Certainty is missing the point entirely.
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Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
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Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.
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Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
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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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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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I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
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You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.
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It's a great time to be alive.
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It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
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I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.
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