Parent Quote by Anne Lamott Download Open image “Write as if your parents are dead.” — Anne Lamott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parent Parenting Writing
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are… — Dorothy Allison 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
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us. — Himanshu Suri Copy Share Image
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
