Even if only the people in your writing group read your mem… - Anne Lamott

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Even if only the people in your writing group read your memoirs or stories or novel, even if you only wrote your story so that one day your children would know what life was like when you were a child and you knew the name of every dog in town — still, to have written your version is an honorable thing to have done.

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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