All Anne Lamott Quotes
- I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. Church
- I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. Gift
- I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. Days
- If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved… Evolved
- Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. Afterward
- My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. Atheist
- No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. Appropriate
- The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. Always Waiting
- These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. Attention
- When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. Bonanza
- Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman… Amass
- Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with,… Air
- Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children -… Ache
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,… All
- I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach… Beach
- I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets,… Book
- I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was… Advantage
- I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine'… Any
- My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… Arabia
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...… Breath
- The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled… All
- The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the… Daddies
- Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that… Adams
- E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five… Book
- Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is,… Children