"I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success."

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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

— Anne Lamott