I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians. — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we… — Anne Lamott Helping Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Being positive Copy Share Image
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe.… — Anne Lamott Across the universe Copy Share Image
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze… — Anne Lamott Buttons Copy Share Image
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together,… — Anne Lamott Believer Copy Share Image
I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place... — Anne Lamott Crazy Copy Share Image
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return. — Anne Lamott Home Copy Share Image
“The review in the newspaper the next day was not very good. But by then I'd figured out the gift of failure,… — Anne Lamott Failure Copy Share Image
Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is… — Anne Lamott Coming to an end Copy Share Image
“I had to grip myself by the wrist not to pitch one good idea after another at them. . . . I… — Anne Lamott Obstacle Course Copy Share Image
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short… — Anne Lamott Broken Copy Share Image
“Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on… — Anne Lamott God love Copy Share Image
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference. — Anne Lamott Conferences Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott 80s Copy Share Image
“But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at… — Anne Lamott Every day Copy Share Image
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,… — Anne Lamott Gold Copy Share Image
“They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people… — Anne Lamott Family Copy Share Image
“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a… — Anne Lamott Thirty years Copy Share Image
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know. — Anne Lamott Line Copy Share Image
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. — Anne Lamott Doors Copy Share Image
I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. — Anne Lamott Craving Copy Share Image
