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Getting Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
- You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to…
- You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from…
- A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- 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…
- Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.
- Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be…
- Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with…
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