For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — 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. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why… — 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. What I’ve… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — 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
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
We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean/ they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — 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
The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places 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
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
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
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
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
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
