“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?”
— Diana Gabaldon, book Drums of Autumn
Source: Drums of Autumn
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