The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull-… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
