Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.

“It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do—you can either type or kill yourself.”

Remember: no one is reading your first drafts.

I told her I thought she’d been very honest, and that this was totally commendable, but that you don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it, too.

the best advice I can give you is to give him a teenie little penis so he will be less likely to come forth.