...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
“...why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death,… — Anne Lamott Crisis Copy Share Image
Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just… — Anne Lamott Business Copy Share Image
“Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to… — Anne Lamott Sobriety Copy Share Image
Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but… — Anne Lamott Binoculars Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Childhood Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — 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
“Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer… — Anne Lamott Writing Copy Share Image
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to… — Anne Lamott Desperate Copy Share Image
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you… — Anne Lamott Clarity Copy Share Image
“The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep.… — Anne Lamott Fame Copy Share Image
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's… — Anne Lamott America Copy Share Image
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good… — Anne Lamott Disaster Copy Share Image
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up.… — Anne Lamott Advantage Copy Share Image
“You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get… — Anne Lamott Facts Copy Share Image
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how… — Anne Lamott Confusion Copy Share Image
