"These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office:
"What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebo… - Anne Lamott
"These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office:
"What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them."
I under[stand] that failure is surely one of these strange angels."
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Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. 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. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.
For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
"Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray — with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom."
