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
airplane ideas flying
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.
heart soul age
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
air grace mountain
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
children people awkward
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.
dream hunger wonder
There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.
crazy writing looks
When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town.
inspirational trying looks
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
god knows doomed
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
lying should-have ideas
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?
baby way steps
one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.
stories happened
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
hair people long
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
past three-things three
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
praying turns buckles
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.