Anne Lamott Quotes

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."
-Anne Lamott in Grace quotes.

"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."
-Anne Lamott in Hope quotes.

"I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days."
-Anne Lamott

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor."
-Anne Lamott in Perfection quotes.

"All the older people who are thriving have stayed physically active — there are exceptions, and everyone knows someone who smoked two packs a day and had a few social beers with breakfast every morning who lived to be 85, but you have to assume that this won't be you, ... Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith."
-Anne Lamott

"A hundred years for now? All new people."
-Anne Lamott

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere . . .You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
-Anne Lamott in Writing quotes.

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
-Anne Lamott