Write Every Day

From Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird

"My writer friends...do not go around beaming with quiet feelings of contentment. Most of them go around with haunted, abused, surprised looks on their faces, like lab dogs on whom very personal deodorant sprays have been tested."
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"'Do it every day for a while,' my father kept saying. 'Do it as you would do scales on the piano. Do it by prearrangement with yourself. Do it as a debt of honor. And make a commitment to finishing things.'"
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"Writing this way is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it."