Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve done it.
Anne Lamott (via soundthewindchimes)
Would you stand for someone talking this way to your children—for instance, telling them that they are not very talented at painting and shouldn’t even bother? Or that their poetry is not very interesting? Of course not. You’d want to go pay this person a little visit with your flamethrower.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (via i-dunno-yet)