Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something — anything — down on paper. What … - Anne Lamott

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Jesus was soft on crime. He’d never have been elected anything.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do — -the actual act of writing — -turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.