Quotes by Anne Lamott

About Anne Lamott:

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her ...

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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. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one rea...

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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will ...

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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

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Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questi...

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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepe...

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When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

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Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

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I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

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I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

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Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

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We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with th...

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I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

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My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnne Lamott
  • DescriptionNovelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
  • BornApril 10, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship