Anne Lamott

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.
-Anne Lamott

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.
-Anne Lamott, Grace [Eventually]: Thoughts on Faith