I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever… — Anne Lamott Becoming Copy Share Image
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have… — Anne Lamott People Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just… — Anne Lamott Eye Copy Share Image
“My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the… — Anne Lamott Psychology Copy Share Image
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,… — Anne Lamott Awe Copy Share Image
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. — Anne Lamott Broken Copy Share Image
“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Education Copy Share Image
Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is… — Anne Lamott Behavior Copy Share Image
“You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have… — Anne Lamott Generosity Copy Share Image
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. — Anne Lamott Bed Copy Share Image
Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out… — Anne Lamott Cake Copy Share Image
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that… — Anne Lamott Change Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Exposed Copy Share Image
If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. — Anne Lamott Big picture Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give… — Anne Lamott Elusive Copy Share Image
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep.… — Anne Lamott Get real Copy Share Image
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension… — Anne Lamott Break Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Help others Copy Share Image
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. — Anne Lamott Needs Copy Share Image
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“Nell's husband has short-man syndrome. Eddie is one of those deadly dull people who is so upbeat that I suspect he would… — Anne Lamott Computers Copy Share Image
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then… — Anne Lamott Book Copy Share Image
