If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,… — Anne Lamott Gold Copy Share Image
You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. / I awoke and saw that life… — Anne Lamott Joy Copy Share Image
“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But… — Anne Lamott Isolation Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or… — Anne Lamott Acting Copy Share Image
“Most of us figure out by a certain age - some of us later than others - that life unspools in cycles,… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going… — Anne Lamott Character Copy Share Image
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
“The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional… — Anne Lamott Losses Copy Share Image
I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being… — Anne Lamott Anxiety Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Alone time Copy Share Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A… — Anne Lamott Best prayer Copy Share Image
“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking… — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Hope Copy Share Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Attention Copy Share Image
Grief is just so scary… If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like… — Anne Lamott Angry Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Heartbeat Copy Share Image
“...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could… — Anne Lamott Divine Copy Share Image
“It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his… — Anne Lamott Brown eyes Copy Share Image
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just… — Anne Lamott Christianity Copy Share Image
