Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too. - Anne Lamott
You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.
- Anne Lamott
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented. - Anne Lamott
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you. - Anne Lamott
I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. - Anne Lamott
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. - Anne Lamott
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. - Anne Lamott
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of … - Anne Lamott
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of …
Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sw… - Anne Lamott
Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sw…
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. - Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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