Anne Lamott Quotes

Reverence is about constantly asking yourself: how alive am I willing to be? It hurts to be fully alive. It means taking off some of your armor.

If you sit down and you start writing, it's like getting in very cold water and you're in. You might as well paddle around for a minute.

You got to stop not writing.

Oh, thank you for keeping me alive as a child, but I won't be needing you right now. I'm in the middle of something.

The key is not to try harder, but to resist less.

She had come planning to swim, which I hadn’t as the water is too cold for me, and she took off all her clothes, right there and then. “Do you feel shy?” I asked as she walked to the bank. “Nope. This here is what I done got. This is what me being alive looks like now."

We know by a certain age the great palace lies of the culture — if you buy or do or achieve this or that, you will be happy and rich. Nope. Love and service make us rich.

The game of life is hard, and a lot of us are playing hurt.

Do I think the sky is falling? Sort of.

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.

100 years from now? All new people.

..I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.