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Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
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You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
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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 don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
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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.
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Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
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When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
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Her purse was a weight, ballast it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
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I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior or how to save and fix and rescue or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
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You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
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