Quotes from lamott anne v

Our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

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.

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

I ate a few chocolates and felt more animated. Then I crashed and was just as sad as I'd been before, but fatter and tired.

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.

The usual things helped: some distance, prayer, chocolate.

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very--it's like being a shoemaker. You know, shoemakers stick to your last and you stay there working over your last, and it's pretty drudgy in a lot of ways.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.