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Write Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably…
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- 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…
- I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
- You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,…
- I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they…
- I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
- I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets,…
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her…
- The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side…
- 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…
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's…
- 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.…
- We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The…
- We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one…
- To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have…
- If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real…
- Write as if your parents are dead.
- 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…
- When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around…
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