Anne Lamott on Writing

“That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.”

“Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.”

“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 write it.”

“If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.”

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?”

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