I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so.…

Anne Lamott
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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 it is cracked up to be. But writing is. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.26, Anchor
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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 it is cracked up to be. But writing is. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.26, Anchor

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