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Writer Quotes by Anne Lamott
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is…
- Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
- I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And…
- I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
- I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place…
- I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the…
- Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,…
- Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
- 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…
- Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens…
- 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…
- If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation…
- I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young…
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