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
father inspiration writing
My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
writing eight pages
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
real writing caring
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
writing thinking feels
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
writing doors want
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
writing thinking order
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
writing emotional worry
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.
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.
writing telling-the-truth good-writing
Good writing is about telling the truth.
mother husband writing
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
writing doe boxes
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
writing dear-lord people
I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
real good-day writing
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.
writing people world
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.