Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others. ~ Anne Lamott
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Writer’s Wisdom ~ Anne Lamott Tip #3 of 6
Good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. ~ Anne Lamott
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Anne Lamott ~ Tip #2 of 6
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life. ~ Anne Lamott
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Anne Lamott ~ Tip #1 of 6
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. ~ Anne Lamott
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block #6 of 6 Tips
I would never write first — I don’t think that’s good at all. As soon as you write in language, it becomes frozen. It’s better to think first — to think for a long time — and then write when you’re ready to write. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 4 of 6
I don’t think “writer’s block” actually exists. It’s basically insecurity — it’s your own internal critic turned up to a higher level than it’s supposed to be at that moment, because when you’re starting a work — when the page is blank, when the canvas is open — your critic has to be turned down to zero… The point is actually to get stuff on paper, just to allow yourself to kind of flow. It is only by writing that you’ll discover characters, ideas, things like this. ~ Phipipp Meyer
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 2 of 6
A blank page is also a door — it contains infinity, like a night sky with a supermoon really close to the Earth, with all the stars and the galaxies, where you can see very, very clearly… You know how that makes your heart beat faster? ~ David Mitchell
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 1 of 6
The blank page in the mind has to be filled before you have the courage to face the actual blank page. ~ Jonathon Franzen
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is only one single way. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you to write. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
