Anne Lamott

A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips. Reprint. Tour.

Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird

Natalie Sprite

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JT Helms

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

Niall Williams history of the rain (Women shrinking )

She pulls in her narrow shoulders and presses her knees togethe and she actually seems to go in a little. Iam sorry for upsetting he

'One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy fulfilment seems to be falling in love with something - your dream, your image of the future." 'One outstanding accomplishment, and self- -E. Paul Torrance

Matt Stein

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it.

Sadie Hoffman

you don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. you just have to see two or three feet ahead of you.

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. 

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