From Chapter 1 of Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird": > The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to

From Chapter 1 of Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird": > The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You’ll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them. There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.