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I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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San Francisco County
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
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When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
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But you don't always get what you want,you get what you get
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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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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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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
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If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
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I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
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Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?
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Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
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I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
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