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Telling Quotes by Anne Lamott
- ...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a…
- 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.…
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
More Telling Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
- I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it… — Glenn Beck
- People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. — Max Beerbohm
- I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to… — Adele
- I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie