All Anne Lamott Quotes
- 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 to… All
- I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood… Came
- If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. Door
- Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate. Baby
- Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. Acts
- [S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) Believed
- You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,… Always Even
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish… Assume
- You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good… Artist
- This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean… Artist
- Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose,… Deep
- I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of… All
- Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them.… American
- Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where… Bad
- If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation… All
- When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around… Catches
- I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I… Absolutes
- Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… Capture
- Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. Believe
- I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. Afraid
- If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring… Believe
- Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be… Afraid
- I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped. Deal
- Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. Beware
- I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young… Accepted