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
heart essentials add
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.
writing way firsts
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
feelings depth surprise
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
missing certainty
Certainty is missing the point entirely.
grateful light grace
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
crazy trying made
It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.
jobs enough
Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.
opposites doubt doubt-and-certainty
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.
taken home listening
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
jesus water trying
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.
ghouls scary-books dance-floor
When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
grief numbness next-day
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
inspirational dark
Hope begins in the dark.
writing giving surprise
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.