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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.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
convince us that our own foibles and quirks are both as individual as a finger-print and as universal as an open hand.
Madeleine L'Engle • A Wrinkle in Time
It will tell you what to do.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
To risk joy requires hope. And hope is the opposite of anxiety.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
all I had to do was to write a really shitty first draft of, say, the opening paragraph. And no one was going to see it.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
My kids know that they get to ask people to read their stories and help make them better, while my grown-up students have forgotten this, how much help we need, deserve, and can ask for.
Anne Lamott • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
happens: