"No matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some . of the characters you love or you won't have much of a story."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"Knowledge of your characters...emerges the way a Polaroid develops: it takes time for you to know them."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can't--and, in fact, you're not supposed to--know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"If you want to write, you get to, but you probably won't be able to get very far if you don't start trying to get over your perfectionism."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force...Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"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 your shitty first draft."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"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...Left to its own devices, my mind spends much of its time having conversations with people who aren't there. I walk along defending myself to people, or exchanging repartee with them, or … Continue reading Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
"I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not ONE of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts." "All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much."--Anne … Continue reading Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017
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