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Firsts Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.…
- 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…
- The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity…
- I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine'…
- Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that…
- Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
- 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…
- I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
- The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.…
- 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…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do…
- If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three…
- Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because…
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