If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who… — 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
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same… — 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
“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
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 could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — 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 Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this… — 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
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In… — Anne Lamott 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
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. — 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 Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
