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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“I like for (narrators) to have hope–if a friend or a narrator reveals himself or herself to be hopeless too early on, I lose interest. It depresses me. It makes me overeat.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“I like (narrators) to be mentally ill in the same sorts of ways that I am; for instance, I have a friend who said one day, ‘I could resent the ocean if I tried,’ and I realized that I love that in a guy.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“Having a likable narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running commentary totally holds your attention, who makes you laugh out loud, whose lines you always want to steal.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“If I had a nickel for every person who ever told me he/she wanted to become a writer but ‘didn’t have time to read,’ I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner.”–Stephen King, On Writing

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“If your narrator is someone whose take on things fascinates you, it isn’t really going to matter if nothing much happens for a long time. I could watch John Cleese or Anthony Hopkins do dishes for about an hour without needing much else to happen.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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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

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“I have my own dislikes–I believe that anyone using the phrase ‘That’s so cool’ should have to stand in the corner, and that those using the far more odious phrases ‘at this point in time’ and  ‘at the end of the day’ should be sent to bed without supper.”–Stephen King, On Writing

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Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom--Writealready2017

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 Lamott, Bird by Bird

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