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Writing Quotes by Anne Lamott
- The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
- Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
- Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
- 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…
- Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism will…
- 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…
- Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging…
- That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
- 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…
- 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…
- I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
- Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
- 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,…
- Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
- I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they…
- Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and…
- Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our…
- 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'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'…
- I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone…
- 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…
- Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov