“ Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant for you to hit back. You’re done. It doesn’t necessarily mean you want to vacation together. Anne Lamott
“ Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines. Anne Lamott
“ E.L. Doctorow said 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 yo… Anne Lamott
“ Close your eyes and get quiet for a minute, until the chatter starts up. Then isolate one of the voices and imagine the person speaking as a mouse. Pick it up by the tail and drop it into a mason jar.… Anne Lamott
“ But I try to make sure they understand that writing, and even getting good at it, and having books and stories and articles published, will not open the doors that most of them hope for. It will not m… Anne Lamott
“ Bonnie persuaded me to focus on the good, just for today: tomorrow I can call back and we will wallow in the total awfulness of Amy’s behavior, which will surely lead to permanent estrangement and dea… Anne Lamott
“ As far as I can recall, none of the adults in my life ever once remembered to say, Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is a… Anne Lamott
“ Addicts and alcoholics will tell you that their recovery began when they woke up in pitiful and degraded enough shape to take Step Zero, which is: This shit has got to stop. Anne Lamott
“ A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft—you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft—you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third dr… Anne Lamott
“ Music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow… Anne Lamott
“ Whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you’re lost in the forest, let the horse find the way home. You have to stop directing, because you will only… Anne Lamott
“ That writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. Writing Anne Lamott
“ It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not em… Anne Lamott
“ 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
“ Good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep Anne Lamott
“ You weren't born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You ha… Anne Lamott
“ With THC in your system, you don't dream. And you need to. Otherwise it is like losing one of your senses. Dreams are part of your wholeness. ... when you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the s… Anne Lamott
“ When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our… Anne Lamott
