I am thankful to a blog about David Foster Wallace’s ‘Octet’ for introducing me to the works of Anne Lamott. She’s a writer I definitely need to get to know better.

So far, I have only read a PDF copy of one chapter from Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life’  but already I feel myself getting hooked.

One of her numerous pearls of wisdom is as follows:
“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong”. Continue reading →