Amy Armstrong’s Reviews > Finishing School: The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can't Seem to Get Done > Status Update

"This other kind of symbolic victory keeps us from even getting started. It is the belief that one must have the proper things before one begins."

"Yearning for perfection can stop you from hearing that authentic voice, which says inconsistent things. And while others might not see perfection in such a voice, when you teach yourself how to listen you see that it is perfect in a way of its own."