Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott Alive Copy Share Image
“inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).” — Anne Lamott Inventiveness Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Mind Copy Share Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package. — Anne Lamott Body Copy Share Image
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. — Anne Lamott Despair Copy Share Image
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a… — anne lamott Ozone layer Copy Share Image
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Arithmetic Copy Share Image
Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The… — Anne Lamott Financial security Copy Share Image
“I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible… — Anne Lamott Black people Copy Share Image
“Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want… — Anne Lamott Hysteria Copy Share Image
“Are you born again?" he asked, as we taxied down the runway. He was rather prim and tense, maybe a little like… — Anne LaMott Christian Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage… — Anne Lamott Bondage Copy Share Image
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe… — Anne Lamott Doubt Copy Share Image
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“I had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I… — Anne Lamott Obstacle Copy Share Image
“But let’s say we believe that mercy and forgiveness are in fact foundational, innate, what we are grown from and can build… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — Anne Lamott Church Copy Share Image
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Effort Copy Share Image
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The single most radical thing I know . . . is that I get to take care of myself.” — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We… — Anne Lamott Abel Copy Share Image
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
