“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
Anne Lamott
author, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
Anne Lamott
author, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
J. J. Brown, Wordslinger 
January 11, 2015 at 3:05 AM
I guess this is the permission slip many writers need.
January 11, 2015 at 3:20 AM
I’m not sure it’s a permission slip, more of a way to own the feelings left behind by those who were not good to (the generic) you, and then let go.