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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Bigger
Ignorance
Much
Love

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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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You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.
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I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
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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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Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
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We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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To be great, art has to point somewhere.
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You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.
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Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
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I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
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Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
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I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
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Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.
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