Anne Lamott

“This is parenting on steroids.”

— Anne Lamott

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

— Anne Lamott

I am all the ages I've ever been.

— Anne Lamott

“The way I dance is by writing.”

— Anne Lamott

All freedom comes from discipline.

— Anne Lamott

“I let my mind wander.”

— Anne Lamott

“Life is not a submarine.”

— Anne Lamott

Write as if your parents are dead.

— Anne Lamott

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

— Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

— Anne Lamott

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

— Anne Lamott

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

— Anne Lamott

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

— Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

— Anne Lamott

“By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.”

— Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

— Anne Lamott

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there…

— Anne Lamott

“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I…

— Anne Lamott

“Forgiveness and mercy mean that, bit by bit, you begin to outshine the resentment.”

— Anne Lamott

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

— Anne Lamott

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none…

— Anne Lamott

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

— Anne Lamott

If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you,…

— Anne Lamott

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without…

— Anne Lamott

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your…

— Anne Lamott

“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's…

— Anne Lamott

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold…

— Anne Lamott

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit…

— Anne Lamott

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not…

— Anne Lamott

“Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best…

— Anne Lamott

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

“When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things…

— Anne Lamott

A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle,…

— Anne Lamott

“These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at…

— Anne Lamott

“Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain…

— Anne Lamott

“And autumn ain't so shabby for wow, either. The colors are broccoli and flame and fox fur. The tang is apples, death,…

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“P 264: Elizabeth talking to Rosie re Sharon leaving--"Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do.…

— Anne Lamott

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is…

— Anne Lamott