“ I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one o… Anne Lamott
“ I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance. Anne Lamott
“ However, in the meantime, we are going to concentrate on writing itself, on how to become a better writer, because, for one thing, becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader,… Anne Lamott
“ 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. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. I Anne Lamott
“ Honey,...you'll never draw another calm breath as long as you live. That blissful amniotic unconcerned state of people without children is a thing of the past. Anne Lamott
“ Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on God. Anne Lamott
“ First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257] Anne Lamott
“ E. L. Doctorow once said that writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. You don’t have to see where you’re g… Anne Lamott
“ During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved--which, if we are to believe… Anne Lamott
“ Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on. Anne Lamott
“ But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. Anne Lamott
“ Books! To fling myself into a book, to be carried away to another world while being at my most grounded, on my butt or in my bed or favorite chair is literally how I have survived being here at all. Anne Lamott
“ Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp. Anne Lamott
“ Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, world… Anne Lamott
“ Anything that leaves you more fearful, more isolated, more disconnected from other people, more full of judgment or self-hatred, is not of God, does not follow the Rule of Love—and you should stop doi… Anne Lamott
“ And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about. Anne Lamott
“ And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. Anne Lamott
