If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how yo… - Anne Lamott

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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days — listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

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

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If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days — listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off.

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