All Anne Lamott Quotes
- Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. Bird
- Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. Good
- It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. Crazy
- They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social… Always Threw
- I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying… Asking
- [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you… All
- ...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much. Inspirational
- Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form… Animation
- Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and… Bits
- It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… Adults
- Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one. Everybody
- I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. Compulsive
- Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you… Across
- Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.… Age
- I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this. Drink
- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just… Decision
- So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. Caring
- To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have… Always Tries
- Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which… Day
- Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens… Association
- Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you… Asking
- There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the… Burn
- There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and… Corresponding
- If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real… Act
- Being enough was going to have to be an inside job. Inside