"My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration."

-- Anne Lamott

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“Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can.”
“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.”
“When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.”
“Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.”
“The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the one-time-only characters that I don't remember where the voice I used came from.”
“Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them....”
“Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.”

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