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 o… - Anne Lamott

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.

But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?

Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.