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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
Ends
Prose
Come
Sentences
Right
Teeth
Feel
Writers
Ticker
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Pouring
Even
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Fluid
Time
Natural
Pulling
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My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
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