You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
(Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life )
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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 they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.Anne Lamott
Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life sings itself. But that kind of attention is the prize. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass--seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.
Anne Lamott
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
Anne Lamott
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Anne Lamott
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Anne Lamott
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