To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you h…

Anne Lamott
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To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.107, Anchor
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