The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
Anne LamottEverything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
Anne LamottPerfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Anne LamottI also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.
Anne Lamott