Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — 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… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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
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
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. — Anne Lamott 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
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on… — 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 am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not… — 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
