If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend you…

Anne Lamott
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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.) ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.66, Anchor
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