All Anne Lamott Quotes
- My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Good
- You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over… Bad
- Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that… Breath
- My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. Alone
- Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime… Better
- ...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them.… All
- It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and… Babysitting
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… Any
- Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. Becomes
- What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to… Action
- But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. Inspirational
- The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.… Day
- A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. Better
- My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable Barely
- I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom… Afraid
- We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… Any
- ...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and… Add
- ...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. Consult
- I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn… Beam
- Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as… Breeze
- by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to… All
- You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town Circus
- Expectations are resentments under construction. Construction
- I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't Blow
- We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one… Lice