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| 8740c29 | "Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can." | writing-life writer writing anne-lamott first-draft first-drafts bird-by-bird writing-advice write writers | Anne Lamott | |
| 782e72f | Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird. | quote for-anyone getting-overwhelmed just-take-it-bird-by-bird one-step-at-a-time quote-for-writers quotes-for-all-writers take-a-deep-breath motivational-quotes bird-by-bird quotes | Anne Lamott | |
| c2e4244 | There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk. | writer writing bird-by-bird the-writing-process writing-help writing-advice write on-writing | Anne Lamott |