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Doing Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see…
- All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like…
- Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
- When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration…
- Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is…
- ...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them.…
- Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens…
- Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where…
- Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
- I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and…
- I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any…
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