Cracked Quote by Anne Lamott Download Open image “Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.” — Anne Lamott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cracked Inspirational Love Publication Writing
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in… — Timothy White Copy Share Image
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in and explained, everything important to other kids. they said, 'Look, you're human, you're going to feel isolated and afraid a lot of the time, nad have bad self-esteem, and feel uniquely ruined, but here is the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost… — Helen Garner Copy Share
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Working with Preme is always a dream come true. It's never like "I'm here and I'm comfortable." It's always like that very first time.… — Torae Copy Share Image
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood -… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business… — Dave Madden Copy Share Image
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say,… — Michael J. Jackson Copy Share
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot. — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it. — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share
