“I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott Greek tragedy Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. — Anne Lamott Father Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott 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 Copy Share Image
“Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.” — Anne Lamott Faith Copy Share Image
“I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact,… — Anne Lamott Art 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 Copy Share Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not… — Anne Lamott Ability Copy Share Image
“Peg came over with dinner tonight and told me about this dumb schmaltzy poem she heard someone read at an AA meeting.… — Anne Lamott Aa meeting Copy Share Image
“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or… — Anne Lamott Break your heart Copy Share Image
“Your day’s work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, “When I write, I feel like an… — Anne Lamott Failure Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered… — Anne Lamott Certainty Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.” — Anne Lamott Ancient egyptian Copy Share Image
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of… — Anne Lamott Action Copy Share Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.” — Anne Lamott Books Copy Share Image
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical… — Anne Lamott Life Copy Share Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. — Anne Lamott Church Copy Share Image
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Life lessons Copy Share Image
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. — Anne Lamott Beautiful Copy Share Image
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott Child Copy Share Image
If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. — Anne Lamott Children Copy Share Image
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
