Quote

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Anne Lamott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Forget
Difficult
Trying
Long
Snacks
Magazines
Enlightenment
Road

More quotes by Anne Lamott

Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
Anne Lamott
Image
I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't
Anne Lamott
Image
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
Anne Lamott
Image
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
Anne Lamott
Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
Anne Lamott
Image
It's a great time to be alive.
Anne Lamott
Image
We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
Anne Lamott
Image
It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.
Anne Lamott
Image
Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
Anne Lamott
Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
Anne Lamott
Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
Anne Lamott
Image
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
Anne Lamott
Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
Anne Lamott
Image
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.
Anne Lamott
Image
Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
Anne Lamott
Image
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
Anne Lamott
Image
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
Anne Lamott
Image
All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
Anne Lamott
Image
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
Anne Lamott
Image
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
Anne Lamott