Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamottis an American novelist and non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth10 April 1954
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual self laughing
I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
writing eight pages
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.
meditation path natural
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
drug my-family alcoholics
My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
thinking drug youth
I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.
my-family deals written
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
reading mind great-work
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
father inspiration writing
My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.
spiritual meditation drug
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.
spiritual teacher love-you
If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
facts energy made
In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.
differences pages seven
The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.
witty character thinking
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.
ashamed asking believe god job petty seems
We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.