If you sit down and you start writing, it's like getting in very cold water and you're in. You might as well paddle around for a minute. - Anne Lamott

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If you sit down and you start writing, it's like getting in very cold water and you're in. You might as well paddle around for a minute.

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About Anne Lamott

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

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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

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