Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott
Anne Lamottis an American novelist and non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth10 April 1954
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
waiting way always-waiting
The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
prayer real hate
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
kids sunday night
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
mother believe america
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
heart people brain
I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.
attention pay-attention ecstasy
There is ecstasy in paying attention.
feet april breathe
Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003
feet joy april
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
tea yogurt baptists
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
grace stitches hem
Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
hate writing thinking
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)
book thinking people
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
dresses attention print
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
reading writing thinking
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.