We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
– Anne Lamott
Tag: Anne Lamott
Quotable 445
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 need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 169
Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 159
All of the writers you love are writing bad first drafts. That’s how we come to find our characters and voices and truth.
– Anne Lamott