I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's… — Anne Lamott Aunt Copy Share Image
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. — Anne Lamott Embarrassment Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Repetition Copy Share Image
“The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.” — Anne Lamott Comedy Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and… — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after… — Anne Lamott Eight Copy Share Image
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others. — Anne Lamott Book 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
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at… — Anne Lamott Annoying 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
It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them… — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are… — Anne Lamott Bubbles 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
“But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, "Here's who I am," and that is… — Anne Lamott Believe Jesus Copy Share Image
“...I've gotten endless signs of the greatness of God's love and hilarious care, but I always end up needing a newer sign,… — Anne Lamott Greatness of god Copy Share Image
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would… — Anne Lamott Bores Copy Share Image
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put… — Anne Lamott Bible Copy Share Image
“But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God… — Anne Lamott Awakening Copy Share Image
“….but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn’t the kind that comes on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. And… — Anne Lamott Magic wand Copy Share Image
“Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided… — Anne Lamott Age Copy Share Image
“Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want… — Anne Lamott Hysteria Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Cobras Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself. — Anne Lamott Answered prayers Copy Share Image
But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you? — Anne Lamott Care Copy Share Image
“I saw a button pin once that said: “I’m not tense. I’m just very, very alert.” — Anne Lamott Tense Copy Share Image
I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian. — Anne Lamott Christian Copy Share Image
“Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.” — Anne Lamott Communication Copy Share Image
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short. — Anne Lamott Carry Copy Share Image
“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” — Anne Lamott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“...that grace is having a commitment to - or at least an acceptance of - being ineffective and foolish.” — Anne Lamott Foolish Copy Share Image
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers. — Anne Lamott Forever Copy Share Image
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come… — Anne Lamott Baby Copy Share Image
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself… — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott Flailing Copy Share Image
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. — Anne Lamott Despair Copy Share Image
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. — Anne Lamott Ears Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. — Anne Lamott Bigs Copy Share Image
