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
writing self-worth opinion
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
lovely trying born
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.
crazy giving ham
If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
good-friend doe helping
Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.
answers annoying problem
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
teacher mistake people
My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
alive hardest learning-to-love
Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
philosophy father eye
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"
laughter keys grace
Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.
beautiful wise eye
Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.
character lines pages
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
writing telling-the-truth good-writing
Good writing is about telling the truth.
hate character reason
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.