My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go. Anne Lamott More Quotes by Anne Lamott More Quotes From Anne Lamott You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. Anne Lamott hate reason character Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table. Anne Lamott chocolate heaven long I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. Anne Lamott sand fighter shame So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?" Anne Lamott eye philosophy father I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth. Anne Lamott age wish morning ...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. Anne Lamott connections spiritual life-is Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive. Anne Lamott learning-to-love hardest alive You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. Anne Lamott bricks artist writing Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it. Anne Lamott broccoli I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something comes up, and I overreact and blame and sulk, and it feels like I haven't made any progress at all. But it turns out I'm less of a brat than before, and I hit the reset button much sooner, shake it off, and get my sense if humor back. Anne Lamott reset-button self baby Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. Anne Lamott writing feels thinking If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little. Anne Lamott admitting three littles Good writing is about telling the truth. Anne Lamott good-writing telling-the-truth writing My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with. Anne Lamott understanding When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. Anne Lamott scratches progress praying Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse. Anne Lamott stars sweet thinking I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian. Anne Lamott sober drunk christian E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. Anne Lamott minutes reading book The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. Anne Lamott daddy team hate All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. Anne Lamott lonely earth baby
