“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

—  Anne Lamott

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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