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Good Quotes by Anne Lamott
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
- I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.…
- Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...…
- I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where…
- It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit,…
- It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
- You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over…
- The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth.…
- A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to…
- Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
- They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social…
- I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
- To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have…
- There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the…
- For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle