It’s about becoming conscious…

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