And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may… — Anne Lamott Dark Copy Share Image
“I had enough to wrestle, wrangle and settle back into, with this one life of mine. Besides, I knew beyond a shadow… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it. — Anne Lamott Fulfillment Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Figures Copy Share Image
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. — Anne Lamott Believe Copy Share Image
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those… — Anne Lamott Community Copy Share Image
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Be good Copy Share Image
“...I had to learn new skills. One was to no longer pretend not to see what was going on. ... I was… — Anne Lamott Psychology Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Bed Copy Share Image
“...why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death,… — Anne Lamott Death Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Blown away Copy Share Image
“These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: "What is the knocking? What is the knocking at… — Anne Lamott Angel Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott Effort Copy Share Image
“Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach… — Anne Lamott Humor Copy Share Image
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We… — Anne Lamott Abel Copy Share Image
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe. — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Capture Copy Share Image
“whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you’re lost in the… — Anne Lamott Way home Copy Share Image
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's… — Anne Lamott America Copy Share Image
