Amanda Durfee

“One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, 'It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do - you can either type or kill yourself.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life