My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor. Anne Lamott More Quotes by Anne Lamott More Quotes From Anne Lamott My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go. Anne Lamott witty character thinking My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration. Anne Lamott inspiration writing father My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. Anne Lamott reading writing father The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph. Anne Lamott seven pages differences If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love. Anne Lamott spiritual love-you teacher Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation. Anne Lamott drug meditation spiritual A hundred years for now? All new people. Anne Lamott Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself. Anne Lamott myself me hard-work work
