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
book successful years
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
home years return
For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.
memorable years people
A hundred years from now? All new people.
mother atheist years
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
children kids years
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
dream real years
Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams--what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred--I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.
summer light years
Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.
hurt years resentment
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
prayer character years
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
The American way is to not need help, but to help.
created faith god hates image opposite people turns
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
capable feeling mental spiritual
I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.
chosen difficult huge lie lives mothers superior value women
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
carry cross heard ourselves
I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.