13 beautiful quotes by Anne Lamott. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Anne Lamott
“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....
“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something...
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity...
“I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up ...
“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 head...
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begin...
“The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations,...
“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, b...
“Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I wil...
“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.”
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you mus...
“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the ne...
“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
