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
life god blessed
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.
long fake rabbits
I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.
looks salvation
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.
forever news take-me
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
college graduates
I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
daughter mother earth
I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
taste reggae sophisticated
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
glasses heaven pairs
Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.
people creative what-if
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
grateful culture littles
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
inspiring mothers-day america
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
baby lonely earth
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
progress scratches praying
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
understanding
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.