For a long while, I’ve said that I was going to write a book. It has always been the thing I could do if I wanted to, but I didn’t want to actually try because DUH then I would actually have to prove that I could do the thing I so nonchalantly knew I could do. Makes sense, right? See also “fear of failure” and “you can’t fail if you don’t have a plan” and you’ll be downright cozy with some of my life mantras. […]
“But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, reading one line, and said, “Yes!” And I want to give people that feeling too, of connection, communition
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
