What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the… - Anne Lamott

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things — a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer — and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

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.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.