I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -… — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — 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
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