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We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Time
Natural
Pulling
Like
Often
Tape
Ends
Prose
Come
Sentences
Right
Teeth
Feel
Writers
Ticker
Feels
Whose
Pouring
Even
Words
Fluid

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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
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