Anne Lamott

Quotes

• “Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity ...”
• “I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be b...”
• “The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the tru...”
• “My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juic...”
• “Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spen...”
• “We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history...”
• “Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening w...”
• “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. Y...”
• “Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can m...”
• “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
• “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
• “When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
• “Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
• “I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.”
• “The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.”
• “Laughter is carbonated holiness.”