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
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and… — 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
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." ” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California).” — 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
