I found these quotes by Ann Lamott here: http://victoriagaines.com/page/6/. Some timing. ;-)

“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it. Nor do they go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled….we all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.”

“Just get it all down on paper, because there may be something great in those six crazy pages that you would never have gotten to by more rational, grown-up means. There may be something in the very last line of the very last paragraph on page six that you just love, that is so beautiful or wild that you now know what you’re supposed to be writing about, more or less, or in what direction you might go—but there was no way to get to this without first getting through the first five and a half pages.”

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper.”

“I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident.”

“Everyone I know flails around, kvetching and growing despondent, on the way to finding a plot and structure that work. You are welcome to join the club.”

Join it? I'm the president!